Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:44:28 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207034428.A1193@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 15:03:31 References: <20010207013905.A1007@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 15:03:31 -0800, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > 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. Fair enough... As a followup, with XFREE86_VERSION = 4 bsd.port.mk adds dependencies to XFree86-4-libraries and imake-4. Can this be changed somehow to XFree86-4 (say, another option in /etc/make.conf) without resorting to hacking basd.port.mk (which is painful, as I cvsup ports often)? Or should I go play symlink games in /var/db/pkg? SY, Uwe -- uwe@ptc.spbu.ru | Zu Grunde kommen http://www.ptc.spbu.ru/~uwe/ | Ist zu Grunde gehen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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