From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 23:38:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581A116A4E2 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D438843D53 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id 39so35502pyu for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:38:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=adgGO6g2JEMSA6bOtggZFp0R1ufvKFeyJbawpKHSa1tkhjsrl2EkxYNKCzU36ol2szwO9Ww4WjwKZItpOkQP5DOCVBoyLH48bbiFPGZrlcq+9yRddL5UbS3idg7Q8cKyXDnD5dR4RrO8whcpNFDBwsph/Dja9I0QLhgo/ou7Vk0= Received: by 10.35.82.15 with SMTP id j15mr64664pyl; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.87.9 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:38:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:18 +0000 From: "michael johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: "Fred Cox" In-Reply-To: <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <44B578EE.202@yahoo.com> <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0289289ee9b01c5b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Dejan Lesjak , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:20 -0000 On 7/12/06, Fred Cox wrote: > > What about duplicated file names? > > On my desktop: > > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/man/whatis > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 162506 Jul 8 04:15 > /usr/X11R6/man/whatis > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 48606 Jul 8 04:15 > /usr/local/man/whatis > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13 May 7 14:20 > /usr/X11R6/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 13 May 7 14:20 > /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/XMLnamespaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/X11R6/share/mime/XMLnamespaces > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 56 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/X11R6/share/mime/aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2038 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/local/share/mime/aliases > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/globs > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 92 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/X11R6/share/mime/globs > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12850 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/local/share/mime/globs > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/magic > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 12 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/X11R6/share/mime/magic > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11275 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/local/share/mime/magic > [fred@speedy ~]$ ls -l > /usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/subclasses > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/X11R6/share/mime/subclasses > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3202 Mar 26 00:05 > /usr/local/share/mime/subclasses alot of this could be merged, ie: all the .cache files are dynamicly updated when ports that have mime info or have icons are installed or deinstall. --- John Merryweather Cooper > wrote: > > > Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > There were a couple of debates already concerning > > /usr/X11R6 as prefix for X11 > > > ports and a bunch of other ports that currently by > > default install there. > > > Quite some people were, when creating a new port > > that depends on X11, > > > wandering whether to put it in X11BASE or > > LOCALBASE. More than once a > > > question of whether the prefix /usr/X11R6 should > > be just dropped or at least > > > only retained for core X11 distribution. With the > > upcoming X.org 7.x ports > > > there is perhaps the opportunity to do the prefix > > merger along that. > > > Moving X11 prefix to LOCALBASE would simplify > > above dilemma. It would be also > > > more similar to where linux distributions are > > going (at least Gentoo, Debian > > > and Fedora deprecated /usr/X11R6 in favour of /usr > > which, while > > > not /usr/local is the location of where all > > packages install - depending on > > > X11 or not). If I remember correctly from previous > > discussions, it would be > > > more convenient to people with separate mounts for > > installed packages as > > > well. /usr/local is also the default value for > > --prefix configure option for > > > X.org packages. > > > So it is general intention to go with /usr/local > > or rather ${LOCALBASE} as > > > prefix for X11 ports. If anyone feels that this is > > horribly wrong, please > > > speak up. > > > > > > On behalf of x11 team, > > > Dejan > > > > > What impact (if any) would the doubling or tripling > > of the number of > > files in ./bin have on searching along PATH? Would > > we be shooting > > ourselves in the foot if we did this? > > > > jmc > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >