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Subject: Re: X-inside CDE segfaulting all over the place
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> From jkh@time.cdrom.com Tue Jan 21 19:55:42 1997
> To: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
> cc: epamha@epa.ericsson.se, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, support@xinside.com
> Subject: Re: X-inside CDE segfaulting all over the place
> In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:41:03 +1100."
             <199701200941.UAA00469@putte.seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 00:41:26 -0800
> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 
> > PS It would be nice if all our X-packages defaulted to install in
> >    /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R6.  I will migrate them over in
> >    the next few days.
> 
> Yikes!  No!
> 
> There are very good reasons for them being there, most notably the
> application resource file issues.  Believe me, we've HAD this
> discussion many times and the final verdict was /usr/X11R6 for all X
> related stuff. :-)
> 

The app-defaults is easy to fix:
setenv XFILESEARCHPATH /usr/local/lib/X11/app-defaults/%N:\
                       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/%N
I'm sure you could even compile that into the X distribution
if wanted.

Otherwise what more needs to be done?  xmkmf would need to 
be configured/cloned to allow one to use Imakefiles.

I can't see any other reasons to not seperate the core X11
distribution from the rest of the packages.

Regards/Mark