From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Aug 29 08:33:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05381 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:33:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA05373 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA20781; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 10:31:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Matthew Hunt cc: Brett Taylor , FreeBSD Ports Team Subject: Re: gtk In-Reply-To: <19980829110146.C26914@flarn.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 07:51:38AM -0600, Brett Taylor wrote: > > > Have you upgraded your bsd.port.mk lately? Due to some changes in the way > > the bsd.port.mk deals w/ X stuff now an old bsd.port.mk would install gtk > > into /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R6. > > Nah, it just plain installs into LOCALBASE instead of X11BASE. > There's no USE_X_PREFIX in the Makefile. > > The rule is that things only go in X11BASE if they need to in order > to operate; otherwise, they go in LOCALBASE. Actually, this has > always been the rule, but recent changes make it easier to get right. > > Now, if other software needs GTk to be under X11BASE, then that > seems like a valid case for moving it there, but that's not really > for me to decide. I'm not saying it _has_ to be in X11, I'm saying that moving to /usr/local from X11 has (and will continue to) cause confusion and problems with current ports, and is counterintuitive. I see Vanilla's the porter, I'll write him directly. I wanted to know if there was some other overriding reason for the switch, but no one has chimed in about it. > > -- > Matthew Hunt * Inertia is a property of matter. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message