From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 19 15:26:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 22A4016A4DA; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:26:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp3-g19.free.fr (smtp3-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF5B43D73; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:25:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by smtp3-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02D1249681; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:25:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6ED11774; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:25:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35550-02; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:25:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mayday.esat.net (mayday.esat.net [193.95.134.156]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D31BB1161F; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:25:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Florent Thoumie To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL" Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:25:35 +0100 Message-Id: <1153322735.70633.32.camel@mayday.esat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Dejan Lesjak , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev 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: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:26:14 -0000 --=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 21:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Dejan Lesjak 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. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEvk7vMxEkbVFH3PQRAvWLAJ4vFG7bex3xaig4FFfo8vfxWyRFswCfWf3/ B/dRPmI8QJT63NAFIRg8Vss= =HhN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL--