Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 01:14:49 +0000 From: "michael johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <b2203fed0607121814k67c91d8ew23cb521d80bd423d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1152752348.53082.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <b2203fed0607121638l3b1f8a52ke338accdac69d98b@mail.gmail.com> <20060712234839.62961.qmail@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060713005600.GA57064@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <1152752348.53082.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On 7/13/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:56 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:48:39PM -0700, Fred Cox wrote:
> > > Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically
> > > different in size. Maybe they are mergeable, but
> > > there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that
> > > for all possible conflicts.
> >
> > They are generated files see makewhatis(1). There will probably be a
> > few real conflicts, but it's unlikely to be a serious issue.
>
> It may be more serious than you think. Currently, GNOME and KDE will
> conflict with each other if this move happens. We will have to either
> come up with a new pseudo-port to handle common files, or find some
> other way of consolidating things.
>
> That said, GNOME's move to LOCALBASE will not be too problematic. In
> fact, the number of required patches might drop off. I'd be willing to
> bet that if someone did X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} and installed GNOME on a
> clean machine right now, it would work.
It does I tested this not long ago.
Joe
>
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