From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 17:16:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B0616A4BF for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:16:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.volant.org (gate.volant.org [207.111.218.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AB943FE9 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:15:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl+freebsd@volant.org) Received: from 64-144-229-193.client.dsl.net ([64.144.229.193] helo=[192.168.0.13]) by smtp.volant.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.22) id 1A1aqK-0002E5-6H; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:15:48 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:15:45 -0700 From: Pat Lashley To: Jeremy Messenger , Michael Edenfield Message-ID: <3704433520.1064276145@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: References: <200309220850.13662.andy@athame.co.uk> <3F6F7C7A.7070702@gmx.net> <20030922225730.GA29540@wombat.localnet> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.0b6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Scan-Signature: 106a317f3e33c1e32c9ba517d70ce429824ba71c X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) X-Spam-Score-Int: -8 X-Spam-Report: -0.8/5.0 This mail has matched the spam-filter tests listed below. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for details about the specific tests reported. In general, the higher the number of total points, the more likely that it actually is spam. (The 'required' number of points listed below is the arbitrary number above which the message is normally considered spam.) Content analysis details: (-0.80 points total, 5 required)header IN_REP_TO (-0.5 points) Has a In-Reply-To header quoted email text REPLY_WITH_QUOTES (-0.5 points) Reply with quoted text AWL (1.2 points) AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is KDE installing in LOCALBASE; not X11BASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 00:16:27 -0000 --On Monday, September 22, 2003 18:19:01 -0500 Jeremy Messenger wrote: > Yep.. I am the maintainer for www/linux-opera and I was expected that KDE > is in /usr/X11R6 for the icon stuff, because of a lot of GUI apps are > install in /usr/X11R6. I never get the feedback about linux-opera with > KDE, until last week I found out that KDE is install in /usr/local (I > don't use KDE and never check on KDE's prefix until now). I will have to > change from ${X11BASE} to ${LOCALBASE} to put the Opera icon in the > ${LOCALBASE}/share/applnk for KDE. > > It is how it got me wondering and curious about hier(7) to see if it > needs to clean or else. :-) Just as a historical note, the reason that many X11 apps try to install into the X11(R6) hierarchy is because most X11 apps used to be built using imake and Imakefiles. Imake was designed primarily for use with the apps bundled with the X11 distribution. As a consequence of short- sighted design, it is incredibly painful to try to configure a set of Imakefile templates that put things anywhere else. Imake is one of the reasons that X11 has earned the designation "Complex non-solutions to simple non-problems." -Pat