Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:29:17 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE Message-ID: <20061019202917.GA36027@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4537DDB9.9030500@computer.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019201413.GA35696@xor.obsecurity.org> <4537DDB9.9030500@computer.org>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > 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 sho= uld > >>>>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 > >>>> > >>>>A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too= =20 > >>>>:-). > >>>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. >=20 > But /usr/ports/UPDATING reads: > 20061014: > AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users > AUTHOR: gnome@FreeBSD.org >=20 > 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. Right, as it says GNOME moved to LOCALBASE but everything else in X11BASE is still there. kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN+AdWry0BWjoQKURAoOsAKDxLlycRM32H07fvr+LUvGQPcwBkgCgnX4q IpyxOto5OJJQwyidGAZmv24= =NMf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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