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From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: X-inside CDE segfaulting all over the place 
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > PS It would be nice if all our X-packages defaulted to install in
> >    /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R6.  I will migrate them over in
> >    the next few days.
> 
> Yikes!  No!
> 
> There are very good reasons for them being there, most notably the
> application resource file issues.  Believe me, we've HAD this
> discussion many times and the final verdict was /usr/X11R6 for all X
> related stuff. :-)
> 

Well, using null and union mounts we could hold the packages anywhere we
wanted... 

And they would not even notice.

	Sander

> 					Jordan
>