Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 10:13:30 -0500 (EST) From: Branson Matheson <branson@ferginc.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.dialix.oz.au>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, epamha@epa.ericsson.se, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local X packages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970121101202.19778L-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970121085852.1465F-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, John Fieber wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Mark Hannon wrote: > > > 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. > > It has been a while, so I don't remember all the issues, but I > spent a great deal of time trying to separate the core X > distribution from locally installed applications and I finally > gave up. I know that this can be done. Under the Langely ICE model, X11R6 is installed in /usr/local/X11R6-26.1/ and _all_ other packages are installed in /usr/local/packagename-rev/ so I will check into this when I have time and see how they did it. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If you're falling off a System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | mountian, you might as well Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@ferginc.com | attempt to fly. -Delenn
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