Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 19:39:08 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> Cc: tim@sssun.spb.su, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu>, "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: imake & /usr/local Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960129193827.6799F-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199601291414.IAA20989@tick.SSEC.WISC.EDU>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Dave Glowacki wrote:
> > I'd prefer /usr/local/X11/*, as well as stock X11 into /usr/X11/*, not
> > /usr/X11R6. When R7 come out we then shouldn't change this again,
> > and a little less typing :-)
>
> Having done this three times now (R3 -> R4 -> R5 -> R6) I've gotta say that
> it's MUCH easier to have things segregated by release number if you have a
> significant number of programs.
>
> Not EVERYTHING changes, but enough does that it's handy to have an old
> version and a new version available. xscreensaver, for example, used the
> XIdle extension under R5 but uses the new Screensaver extension under R6.
>
> Besides, we're alledgedly only going to have to worry about this for one
> more release (X11R6.1), after which we'll start with BroadwayR1...
agreed ! /usr/X11Rx isn't that bad.
So we should have /usr/local/X11Rx as well ?! ;-))
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