From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 22:36:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD9D16A420 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:36:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (gndrsh.dnsmgr.net [205.238.40.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3708C43D68 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:36:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA78592; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:35:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" 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" To: Alexander@Leidinger.net (Alexander Leidinger) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:35:58 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:36:14 -0000 ... > 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.... -- Rod Grimes freebsd@freebsd.org