Re: /usr/X11R6
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 06:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > 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.
>
> i see no reason not why it should not work. the dirs under X11R6 prefectly
> integrate into /usr. and this solves problems like what to do with share and
> libexec (X11R6/share or share/X11 ? X11R6/libexec or libexec/X11 ?).
>
> two share tree's doesn't make sence to me..
FWIW, this would be my first preference (doing away with /usr/X11R6
altogether). As has already been noted, the current /usr/X11R6
hirerarchy would fit nicely if it were simply moved to /usr. I doubt
this is just a coincidence. A symlink from /usr/X11R6 to /usr could
be used until the transition was completed. However, I suspect there
would be tremendous oppoisition to doing this.
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:35:00AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> i vote for
> c) every package that is installed by default into X11
>
> this way X11, fvwm and such stuff will go into X11R6, but tcl/tk, gnome, kde,
> gvim, and most other stuff will not use it.
Taking a more pragmatic approach, this is probably the best way to go.
In this case the following rules of thumb would apply. If a package
uses xmkmf, use the defaults which would put it under /usr/X11R6. If
a package uses autoconf, use --prefix=/usr when running configure
which would put it under /usr.
David
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