Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:47:10 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> Subject: Re: xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE Message-ID: <456C842E.9090800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <456C7EE5.80408@FreeBSD.org> References: <20061128174728.GB69619@samodelkin.net> <456C799B.9010800@FreeBSD.org> <456C7EE5.80408@FreeBSD.org>
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Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> Currently we have 2 locations for files installed by ports. LOCALBASE
>> (which defaults to /usr/local) and X11BASE (which defaults to
>> /usr/X11R6). When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into
>> /usr/local.
>
> I don't know where you guys read that.
Well, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was the
plan?
>> Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE
>> stuff altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local.
>
> This should happen before we move X.org to LOCALBASE.
Cool, I wasn't sure about the ordering on that, but one virtue of
installing xorg 7 into LOCALBASE would be that you don't have to move
all the current X11BASE ports all at once, since most things would
just work.
For example, when I installed my new laptop I put "X11BASE=/usr/local"
in /etc/make.conf, and everything worked fine, including a bunch of
the ports that were broken when kris did his recent /usr/xorg run.
In any case, none of this is material to the OP's question. Fixing the
ports now to install into a non-standard base will make them PREFIX
clean down the road no matter where PREFIX happens to be. :)
hth,
Doug
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