From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 7 5:24:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from flux.ptc.spbu.ru (flux.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2952037B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from snark.ptc.spbu.ru (snark.ptc.spbu.ru [195.19.225.131]) by flux.ptc.spbu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3/cf-1.0.rbl) with ESMTP id QAA48008 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:03 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from uwe@localhost) by snark.ptc.spbu.ru (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id QAA02097 for ports@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:02 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:02 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207162402.A2074@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Mail-Followup-To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.3i In-Reply-To: <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 18:49:25 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 18:49:25 -0800, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > let the system administrator choose the policy. > > But the *default* in XFree-4 is to install in /etc, not in > /usr/X11R6/etc (look at the Xserver man page for instance). XFree is influenced by Linux too heavily, and we all know that Linux is only a "Unix-like" OS ;-), so I wouldn't trust their ideas of how things should be laid out in real Unix (whatever Rev. Don Kool says :). > However it is easy to choose the location of the etc files before > compiling XFree. I will add an option in the configure script. Hmm, incidentally, prebuild package from ftp.freebsd.org installs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> ../../../../etc/X11/xkb and /etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> ../../../../../var/db/xkb And from the number of ..'s it's clear that symlink for "compiled" was made not for /etc but for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. Somehow this gives me a hint that /etc is not a default location. Fortunately, hierarchy in /etc is more shallow and /.. points back to / so the symlink works (well, sort of, as the symlink is dangling as installed). 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