On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 08:03:58PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > I'd like to get a policy decision on whether /usr/X11R6 is for: > > a) the X11 system only > > b) the X11 system + all applications that depend upon it > > This is not spelled out clearly in any policy document (or the > FSSTND/FHS). > > This was debated a month or so ago (mostly on debian-devel), but there > was no consensus. At that time, nobody was in charge of policy. > > There is a bug (#24031) against the Gnome packages requesting that I > move them to /usr/X11R6 - but I'm hesitant to do this until a policy > is established one way or the other. I personally have no preference. Wouldn't bother me if we whacked /usr/X11R6 altogether and just moved all its stuff into the FHS-compliant places, and left behind the appropriate symlinks. I have no idea if/how this would break existing stuff, though. -- G. Branden Robinson | Q: How does a Unix guru have sex? Purdue University | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;fsck; branden@purdue.edu | more;yes;fsck;fsck;fsck;umount;sleep http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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