Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:19:05 -0500 From: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE Message-ID: <4537DDB9.9030500@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <20061019201413.GA35696@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019201413.GA35696@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 10/19/06 15:14, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: >> On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be >>>> dropped in favour for LOCALBASE. >>>> >>>> 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? >>>> >>>> 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). >> So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE >> section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE >> will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever >> possible from now on? > > It wasn't an "announcement", it was a description of future plans. I > don't know who is actively working on it. But /usr/ports/UPDATING reads: 20061014: AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org GNOME has been updated to 2.16. All GTK+2 and GNOME components have been moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local). To upgrade your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need to use either sysutils/portupgrade or sysutils/portmaster. To use portmaster, make sure you have least 1.9 version to have the upgrade success. > > Kris -- Regards, Eric
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