Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:38:18 +0000 From: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Fred Cox" <sailorfred@yahoo.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <b2203fed0607121638l3b1f8a52ke338accdac69d98b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <44B578EE.202@yahoo.com> <20060712233143.38788.qmail@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 7/12/06, Fred Cox <sailorfred@yahoo.com> 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 <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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