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Peter Maloney wrote:
 > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:41 PM, deeptech71 at gmail.com
 > <deeptech71 at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > X11R6 should be a symlink to local or ./local.
 >
 > Did you test this, by removing the link and creating it
 > relative to see if there are any stupid side effects?

No apparent side effects. And I can't even see why there would be any. 
In both cases (X11R6 points to "/usr/local" vs X11R6 points to "local")
- "/usr/X11R6" resolves to the symlink, although
     different symlink texts can be extracted;
- "/usr/X11R6/" resolves to the "local" directory in "/usr";
- "/usr/X11R6/file123" resolves to "/usr/local/file123".

TODO: Test whether purely removing X11R6 has any side effects.