From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 7 5:35:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BBD37B491 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:35:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C574357627; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:36:04 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:36:04 -0600 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207073604.A16642@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010207162402.A2074@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010207162402.A2074@snark.ptc.spbu.ru>; from uwe@ptc.spbu.ru on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:24:02PM +0300 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5025 F691 F943 8128 48A8 5025 77CE 29C5 8FA1 2E20 X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x8FA12E20 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:24:02PM +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov scribbled: | 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 :). We try to not use discriminating unjustified arguments like "Linux sucks" in technical discussions. :) | > 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. No, it just means that XFree86 has a large code base and someone may have forgotten to change it. | 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). I really do not see the validity of raising an issue that has been there since XFree86 3.*. In any case, not very many people has been objecting about /etc/XF86Config or /etc/X11/* There is no need to raise an unnecessary bikeshed. [Let's paint that bikeshed blue] "Let's move /etc/X11 to /usr/local" [No, let's not] "No, let's not" Back to daily scheduled supposedly technical discussion. :) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message