From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 6 16:52:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7DB37B503; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f170qGe10144; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:52:17 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:52:16 +0000 (GMT) From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" To: Jean-Marc Zucconi Cc: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc In-Reply-To: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > 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. What? Please RTFM. I NEVER had to worry about this. All you need to do is create a XF86Config. so that the X server will read it accordingly. Configuring XDM and xinit is also straightfoward. I have been doing this for years. > X11 always violated the porters-handbook by not stalling itself in > /usr/local :-) Well, you could simply #define X11ProjectRoot /usr/local/X11 and everything would be resolved. The question is: "Why?". The only reason why I believe that XFree86 decided to start installing configuration files in /etc was because some Linux zealots think that it should be this way (FSSTND, Debian configuratin rules, Red Hate policy, yada, yada, yada :-P). Good for a desktop-oriented OS, targeted to be used by grandmothers. I have X installed only in the NFS server in a newer lab here and have ALL configuration files shared in the network. Trust me: its a breeze to manage. For some older machines with Linux I use a hacked Slackware to share the entire /usr tree via network (and the network server is an Alpha running DEC UNIX!). Using /etc is good when you have one machine to configure. If you have lots of them, its a nightmare! Please keep the things the way they are and let the system administrator choose the policy. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message