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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:25:35 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE
Message-ID:  <1153322735.70633.32.camel@mayday.esat.net>
In-Reply-To: <86mzb6d7gl.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <44B740A5.6050709@FreeBSD.org> <200607141300.43547.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <86mzb6d7gl.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 21:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> writes:
> > [...] as far as X.org 7 ports themselves go, they right now already
> > happily build and install under /usr/X11R6 prefix [...]
>=20
> This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7.
>=20
> BTW, I am constantly amazed at FreeBSD ports maintainers' continued
> insistence that X, Y or Z "can't be done" when in fact everybody else
> is already doing it, and FreeBSD is the odd one out with innumberable
> hacks and tweaks to make it work "our way" instead of the way
> everybody else does it.  This debate is a perfect example of this: the
> rest of the world already installs everything (X, KDE, Gnome...) under
> a single prefix - usually /usr - yet FreeBSD port maintainers insist
> that it can't possibly be done.

Nobody says it can't be done. The fact we've had two different prefixes
for such a long time just created possible collisions when it comes to
merging them.

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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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