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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