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Date:      Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:07:23 +0000
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
To:        Alex Kozlov <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org, freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Heads Up: X11BASE removal
Message-ID:  <CADLo839fRtWNNnWWRmBefEXBuvE6mAA3iNqAhE2xasFW7h%2BkTA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20111226062923.GA70925@ravenloft.kiev.ua>
References:  <20111226062923.GA70925@ravenloft.kiev.ua>

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On 26 Dec 2011 06:57, "Alex Kozlov" <spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 09:22:02PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > The X11BASE variable has been deprecated for a long time. Support for
> > having a X11BASE different than LOCALBASE was terminated on
> > 2009/12/18. After the 9.0 release I will commit a patch that removes
> > all current references of the variable from bsd.port.mk and
> > bsd.xorg.mk.  In the meantime I will be adding some helper code to a
> > few ports that still depend on it. New ports should not reference
> > X11BASE at all.
> Do You consider removal of X11 dir from /etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist in
CURRENT?
> Old insallations already have this dir and new doesn't have xorg.conf at
> all or have it in $PREFIX/etc/X11/
>

X11BASE is the variable that used to reference /usr/X11R6 which is where
the older XFree86 was installed.  Since we moved to Xorg, it's been a
symlink to /usr/local if present.

/etc/X11 is not related to this change.

Chris



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