From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 6 15: 3:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347E537B401; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:03:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f16N3Vr03460; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:03:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: jmz set sender to jmz@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc In-Reply-To: <20010207013905.A1007@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> References: <20010207013905.A1007@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> Valeriy E Ushakov writes: > Are there any plans to fix XFree86-4 to *not* install stuff in /etc? > A well behaving package should never install anything outside prefix, > especially to /etc. It's especially weird to see symlinks from > /usr/X11R6/... to /etc. Installing X11 config files inside /usr/X11R6/ is possible but I always considered this as a bad idea. Using /etc for config files makes the nfs sharing of /usr/X11R6 among several machines with different video config much more easy and convenient. > It's an important package and it makes me nervous to see how it > violates porters-handbook. X11 always violated the porters-handbook by not installing itself in /usr/local :-) Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message