Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 08:20:48AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:59:20AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > _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.
>
> You can still write -I/usr/X11R6/include, it doesn't matter if it's not used.
> I say go for it. /usr/X11R6 sticks out like a sore thumb.
Yeah, I can write, but what is the effect of that?
I often find myself in the position when I use X libraries (Xt mostly)
built by myself with some changes to allow debugging of my Xt widgets.
I install new libs and headers in another directory and -I/this/new/dir
and -L/that/new/dir allows for compilation and linkage with new version.
If libs are in /usr/lib and headers in /usr/include (default locations)
then this would not work. I just don't understand why you should make
my life (of the programmer) more difficult with no benefits whatsoever?
(Well, some think that there is an aestetic benefit which I just can't see -
if you pile up everything in /usr/lib - what's so good about it?
It is like refusing to make subdirectories in your home dir and have a total
mess in it.)
X is a very important, I would even say unique package, - it deserves
different treatment after all. There is no other software package with
even close complexity and size.
Luck,
Alex Y.
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