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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:42:57 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <netchild@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@freebsd.org, nork@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports CHANGES UPDATING ports/Mk bsd.port.mk ports/accessibility/linux-atk Makefile pkg-plist ports/archivers/stuffit Makefile ports/astro/linux-setiathome Makefile ports/audio/baudline Makefile ports/audio/linux-arts ...
Message-ID:  <200506252143.03065.lofi@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050625210603.406752c8@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
References:  <200506172259.j5HMxTad068378@repoman.freebsd.org> <200506252024.32201.lofi@freebsd.org> <20050625210603.406752c8@Magellan.Leidinger.net>

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On Saturday, 25. June 2005 21:06, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:24:27 +0200
>
> Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > So whoever wants to talk the last word on this issue should update the
> > > documentation.
> >
> > No need, it's been documented in hier(7) for years. You're obviously not
> > the first person to have missed that though.
>
> Quoting hier(7):
> ---snip---
>        X11R6/    X11R6 distribution executables, libraries, etc
>                  (optional).
>                  bin/      X11R6 binaries (servers, utilities, local
>                            packages/ports).
>                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                      ^^^^^
>                  etc/      X11R6 configuration files and scripts.
>                  include/  X11R6 include files.
>                  lib/      X11R6 libraries.
>                  man/      X11R6 manual pages.
>                  share/    architecture-independent files.
> ---snip---
>
> I understand the marked parts as if we complain with hier(7) if ports
> which use X11 are installed there.

I really have no idea how you're arriving at that conclusion. It doesn't sa=
y=20
"ports which use X11".=20

> If I (and others) understand this wrong, the description is ambiguous.

No, because what applies to the X11R6 directory of course still applies to =
the=20
X11R6/bin subdirectory - it's packages/ports _of_ X11R6, as opposed to the=
=20
version that we (used to) ship on the installation CD (in a distribution=20
set).

I mean, really, if anybody would stop for a minute and think about this - w=
hat=20
sense does putting everything that somehow links to or displays stuff via X=
11=20
into a common prefix make???

X11R6 historically lives in X11R6 so it's easy to keep *separated* from=20
everything else and its own huge hierarchy doesn't mess up whatever UNIX=20
variant's filesystem layout the user installs it on. If we keep cluttering =
up=20
its hierarchy with stuff that isn't part of X11R6, there's no reason left t=
o=20
keep that hierarchy at all - we could just as well put X11R6 into /usr/loca=
l.

=2D-=20
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