Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 15:49:31 +0200 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <19980302154931.26325@techunix.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <353.888824865@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:47:45PM -0800 References: <34FA5E08.611585A4@san.rr.com> <353.888824865@time.cdrom.com>
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You, Jordan K. Hubbard, were spotted writing this on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 11:47:45PM -0800: > > I'd like to second this. It is a small thing, but for the sake of > > consistency as well as good design I'd like to see it changed. > > Actually, this would be far from consistent - it would confuse the > piss out of folks who've become more than used to /usr/X11R6 as the > location for X libraries and binaries over the last 3 years. Changing > it at this juncture would only be a recipe for complete and utter > chaos. Then add a /etc/make.conf non-default flag to do this. It would decide whether USE_X11 means /usr/X11R6 or /usr/local/X11R6. Then you won't confuse anyone who's used to the mess that /usr/X11R6 is, and you add an option to do /usr/local/X11R6 cleanly for those who do that. This would be also useful for folks fiddling with X sources and rebuilding all or part of the tree often. It also helps progress towards a much useful setup with /usr/X11R6 being ro (currently probably achievable with lots of hairy symlinks). Currently, and historically, /usr/X11R6 is a mess. Doesn't mean it has to stay so forever. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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