From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 2 23:56:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22741 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vader.cs.berkeley.edu (vader.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22727 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca34-11.ix.netcom.com [207.93.143.139]) by vader.cs.berkeley.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA27906; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:55:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id XAA09887; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:55:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:55:50 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803030755.XAA09887@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: mike@smith.net.au CC: mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:44:13 -0800) Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * > Actually, if you can do something like "if /usr/local is a separate * > filesystem from /usr or a symlink to a directory in a separate * > filesystem from /usr, then make /usr/X11R6 a symlink into * > /usr/local/X11R6", that will be great, but that's probably asking too * > much. :) * * It's quite achievable; the question is (as Jordan asked) whether it's * going to surprise people that *expect* it to be in /usr. Um, I haven't asked it to create a new partition or anything, just asked that it put in the same place as /usr/local. Since /usr/X11R6 and /usr/local are, by all accounts, very similar in nature, I think this is just natural. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message