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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2006 20:56:06 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE
Message-ID:  <20061129015606.GA74224@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <456C9FA9.6020602@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:44:25PM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Joel Dahl wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:24 +0000, 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.
> >=20
> > Well, some of us might remember
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-July/033964.html
>=20
> I've been talking to Dejan at that time but I can't remember if I
> actually meant that we were going to add new X.org directly in
> LOCALBASE. Though I haven't tried to contact him for a while, I guess
> he's been busy with other things these days.
>=20
> I somehow inherited a x11 hat and IMHO, it would be better to move to
> LOCALBASE after we moved everything else and made sure all ports were
> X11BASE-clean.

I guess I was also mistaken about the intentions as well.  Anyway, the
good news is that there are only a few hundred X11BASE-unclean errors
(less than I'd thought), so this is something we can keep pushing on
for now.

Kris

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