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Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans
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mal content wrote:
>> /usr/local
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Why is FreeBSD using /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R7?
> 
> thanks,
> MC

A version dependant directory structure hasn't been a good idea in the first place. No one was really able to tell weather to put a port into /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local anyway.