Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:01 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE Message-ID: <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org>
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--J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > Hi, >=20 > according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be > dropped in favour for LOCALBASE. >=20 > Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should > we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro > when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides > that?=20 >=20 > A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-). It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway). Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN89mWry0BWjoQKURAhLsAJ9oXPpDvNzwlf400rQGvGH+PCCaNQCgtuPl 7LOAP3zXQDEQF3RL+xUqsN4= =f9Mu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--
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