Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:24:02 +0300 From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru> To: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc Message-ID: <20010207162402.A2074@snark.ptc.spbu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org>; from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 18:49:25 References: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102070025360.10069-100000@gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br> <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 18:49:25 -0800, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote:
> > let the system administrator choose the policy.
>
> But the *default* in XFree-4 is to install in /etc, not in
> /usr/X11R6/etc (look at the Xserver man page for instance).
XFree is influenced by Linux too heavily, and we all know that Linux
is only a "Unix-like" OS ;-), so I wouldn't trust their ideas of how
things should be laid out in real Unix (whatever Rev. Don Kool says :).
> However it is easy to choose the location of the etc files before
> compiling XFree. I will add an option in the configure script.
Hmm, incidentally, prebuild package from ftp.freebsd.org installs
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -> ../../../../etc/X11/xkb
and
/etc/X11/xkb/compiled -> ../../../../../var/db/xkb
And from the number of ..'s it's clear that symlink for "compiled" was
made not for /etc but for /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb. Somehow this gives
me a hint that /etc is not a default location.
Fortunately, hierarchy in /etc is more shallow and /.. points back to
/ so the symlink works (well, sort of, as the symlink is dangling as
installed).
SY, Uwe
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