From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 18:22:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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 ABAB616A4DE for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD9543D73 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:22:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E975F33; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:22:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4f0VezKVT5Yx; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:22:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-117-245.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.117.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED675D27; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:22:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B68F61.5060809@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:22:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mikhail Teterin References: <20060713120047.CA9C116A512@hub.freebsd.org> <200607131349.30217.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> In-Reply-To: <200607131349.30217.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:22:46 -0000 Mikhail Teterin wrote: >> That said, GNOME's move to LOCALBASE will not be too problematic. šIn >> fact, the number of required patches might drop off. šI'd be willing to >> bet that if someone did X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} and installed GNOME on a >> clean machine right now, it would work. > > I have both of these -- X11BASE and LOCALBASE -- set to "/opt" on all of my > machines since about 6 years ago. Works fine. I can second that using /opt as a target seems to work fine, although I've only done so for a few machines which had a big /opt partition handy for one reason or another; I don't use /opt by default. :-) -- -Chuck