Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:17:32 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207181732.A2232@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> In-Reply-To: <20010207073604.A16642@peorth.iteration.net>; from "Michael C . Wu" on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:36:04 References: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070025360.10069-100000@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010207162402.A2074@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> <20010207073604.A16642@peorth.iteration.net>
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:36:04 -0600, Michael C . Wu wrote: > | 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. :) Well, mea culpa. Few friends of mine hack Linux kernel and we exchange frienly jokes all the time. Sometimes I just forgot that internal jokes like that may spark a flame out there... Sorry. > I really do not see the validity of raising an issue that has > been there since XFree86 3.*. Was it? I don't remember XFree86 3.x bundle *installing* stuff in /etc. > There is no need to raise an unnecessary bikeshed. > "Let's move /etc/X11 to /usr/local" I'm *not* proposing that. This is not about personal preferences. What I complain about is that prefix is not respected. Having 1.5M *installed* in /etc (including a copy of xkbcomp and few other binaries) without any good reason is worrisome. 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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