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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:32:10 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ...
Message-ID:  <20050628183210.GC92486@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <200506281352.06008.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
References:  <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506251924.24269.lofi@freebsd.org> <20050627170150.GB55113@dragon.NUXI.org> <200506281352.06008.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:52:05PM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> On Monday 27 of June 2005 19:01, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 07:24:20PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 18. June 2005 00:59, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > > >     - Use the correct prefix (X11- instead of LOCAL- or LINUX-) for
> > > > some ports. Chase dependencies for this.
> > >
> > > I know I'm late to the party, but I'm really wondering what that is meant
> > > to accomplish.
> > >
> > > X_PREFIX is *not* the 'correct' prefix for *anything* but the X11
> > > distribution
> >
> > Not quite.  Anything that uses Imake will also be installed in X_PREFIX.
> > If that's not what we desire, we should fix /usr/X11R6/lib/config.
> 
> Or Imakefiles of those ports can be changed. Or parameters passed to
> imake can be changed. I'd prefer that to actually modifying imake
> configuration if possible and if modifying imake-using ports wouldn't
> turn out too complicating.

No the philisphy behind Imake is that a package doens't have to know
site-specific policy - it is suppose to be encoded in the site-specific
Imake configuration.

What is wrong with installing proper site configuration files?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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