Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:31:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com> To: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <44B578EE.202@yahoo.com>
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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
--- John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com>
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
>
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