Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 21:20:14 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans Message-ID: <200705032120.14186.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <463A180D.9030303@gmx.de> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <8e96a0b90705030943w1ed479bei106e0ca1fe5a3eb1@mail.gmail.com> <463A180D.9030303@gmx.de>
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On Thursday 03 May 2007 19:12:45 [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > 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. And it's virtually impossible to make a clean pkg-plist if a port/pkg needs to put stuff in *both* LOCALBASE and X11BASE. Let alone make it PREFIX safe (you have to choose either as default and cwd to the other halfway the plist). /usr/X11R6 was a long standing bug about to be fixed once and for all. IIRC it originated from fixed paths in the old XFree. It won't be missed or mourned :) Dan
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