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Date:      Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:47:41 -0800
From:      Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <lofi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports UPDATING
Message-ID:  <1104353261.854.33.camel@leguin>
In-Reply-To: <200412292001.iBTK1JBN042061@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200412292001.iBTK1JBN042061@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 20:01 +0000, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> lofi        2004-12-29 20:01:19 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD ports repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     .                    UPDATING 
>   Log:
>   Add a note about checking the ICE socket directory in case KDE refuses
>   to start after upgrading to Xorg 6.8.1 (which for some reason that's
>   escaping me makes .ICE-unix/ not owned by root a fatal error).

This is because for security that directory does need to be owned by
root.  The conclusion of various discussions and confcalls was that
there was no way to make .ICE-unix be owned by root reasonably from
X.Org's side, so distros would have to be responsible for it.  I guess
the question is whether the rc script that does that, along with
the /tmp cleanup, should live in the base system or in the port.  My
opinion is that an x11 setup script should actually live in the base
system, as there's no other sensible central place to put it, unless we
were to have a single "X11 common misc stuff" port.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                eta@lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt@FreeBSD.org



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