Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:47:51PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > You are going to keep /usr/X11R6 for this release right? I guess that the
> > XFree86 people might get a bit irritated if you tried to drop it.
>
> Actually, I've evilly been toying with the idea of #defining ProjectRoot to
> /usr for 4.0. Upstream has already moved almost entirely to the way Debian
> currently does things as far as filesystem layout goes.
Branden,
_please_ don't do it. It will be utterely confusing to find everything in a
new place. As a person who does X development writing -I/usr/X11R6/include
is an idiom. So as for many people. /usr itself is cluttered more then enough.
X is a very complicated system and knowing what exactly is X and what is not
is a great benefit - and having everything under /usr/X11R6 gives everyone
that benefit. I already trained my fingers to go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 for
a keyboard codes, some server docs, etc. Commercical packages I use assume
existence of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults (not to mention
/usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib). Yes, symlinking would help, but why
I should go to /usr/X11R6/lib, do "ls" and instead of one-screen listing see
an enormous number of entries from /usr/lib??
I remember that me being against something actually serves to you as an
endorsements to do it, but I somehow I am still not up to the task of
using reverse psychology :)
Best,
Alex Y.
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