From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 14 11:51:31 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 C2C5616A4DD; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail4.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1E943D49; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (mailman.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42EC817B8C0; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([193.2.4.66]) by localhost (mail.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R4eAKbpjYHTK; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from edina.ijs.si (edina.ijs.si [193.2.4.3]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8487E17B8C3; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from f9pc04.ijs.si (f9pc04.ijs.si [194.249.156.4]) by edina.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 317D65081F; Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Dejan Lesjak To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:53:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060713235936.12109.qmail@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060713235936.12109.qmail@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607141353.57338.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: ports@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:51:31 -0000 On Friday 14 July 2006 01:59, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi; > > Just here mumbling... > > It would be interesting to set > > X11BASE=/usr/X11 when using XFree86 and > X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} when using XOrg. > > Not only due to historical consistency (/usr/X11 is the path recommended in > XFree86 manpages), but as a way to be able to use XFree86 and keep the > system somewhat cleaner. Well, I was planing XFree86 would move to LOCALBASE as well - if it doesn't, ports depending on X11 would have to special case XFree86 libraries and includes and such, which would make system a bit less clean. Why do you think using /usr/X11 would make things cleaner? Dejan