Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:35:58 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Alexander@Leidinger.net (Alexander Leidinger) Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 Message-ID: <200601252235.OAA78592@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <20060125230159.0922840c@Magellan.Leidinger.net> from Alexander Leidinger at "Jan 25, 2006 11:01:59 pm"
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> Personally I don't care if we install everything in LOCALBASE or not
> (even if I see some benefits in having separate trees for X11 using ports
> and non-X11 using ports, e.g. when sharing a common base on desktops
> and servers), but I don't want to touch the status quo.
>
> Is it non-trivial to move the vmware config files, or does vmware store
> some paths to his binaries in the config?
My bike shed is Blue....
I just read what the bsd.port.mk files say about LINUXBASE LOCALBASE
and X11BASE and dont much agree that ``LOCALBASE is non-X11 ports
install things''.
IMHO thats just the wrong way to define that.
1) /usr/X11R6 was created for the sole purpose of holding the XFree86
or other X11R6 based release, it was more or less a private place
for the X people to control.
2) using non- to qualifiy anything is a bad way to describe it as it
is far to open ended.
3) Technically I could argue that linux stuff is non-X11 and belongs
in this tree and that the LINUXBASE is in conflict with the stated
purpose of LOCALBASE. (Someone just dumped a can of yellow paint
on my blue bikeshead!!! Grrrrrrrrr).
4) In doing some research of some problem I was having.. think it has
to do with linux_base-rh-7.3 I ran into some converstations in the
linux camp that seems to say that /usr/X11R6 is going away, that they
are gona fold that into the standard install locations. Weither this
is / or /usr/local I do not know.
5) Cluttering ``applications that use X'' into the X tree makes it a BITCH
to replace X (ie, switch back and forth from X.org and XFree86).
Care to paint your bikesheed now....
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Rod Grimes freebsd@freebsd.org
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