From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 12 23:49:13 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 C243016A4DD for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:49:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: from web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4F7643D60 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:48:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sailorfred@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 62963 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Jul 2006 23:48:39 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JKmsemxKLSrF/gkucNMrjssCkER5I50C59a5mM5qRGLOhvfO5ciUSp8+HXxczta8CO1iZC328V24MV6WDtRb7kwKF0KXP7SPBFLS4JjHQpWj6+sJoRXpzFwG+Y7kf3hv8Y3OO88qi9mFVBF+R56rWDf7pMXsdL2OWNp1I+xt4e4= ; Message-ID: <20060712234839.62961.qmail@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.18.7.193] by web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:48:39 PDT Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:48:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox To: michael johnson In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 23:49:13 -0000 Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically different in size. Maybe they are mergeable, but there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that for all possible conflicts. I don't have all the ports installed on my machine, so this is not a complete list. Fred --- michael johnson wrote: > 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! 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