Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 22:27:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: mark@grondar.za, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gripe of the week (tm) :-) Message-ID: <199503202227.WAA26437@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503191642.IAA23956@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 19, 95 08:42:47 am
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said > > > > > Hello all > > > > Can we not reorganise the X ports a little so that they do not go into > > /usr/X11R6/..., but rather into /usr/local/...? It is (IMO) kinda like > > installing ports into /usr/bin. > > > > What say you? I'm happy to do the work for those ports that I actually use. > > > I am in rather strong agreement with Mark on this one. It is rather > painfull for those of us who follow the XFree alpha/beta/release cycle > and blow away our /usr/X11R6 often to have to go back and rebuild > all this stuff. > > Or rembering which ports install into /usr/X11R6 and overriding this > with a PREFIX=/usr/local. I know I loose stuff every time I upgarde > XFree86 :-(. This has been a long standing gripe of mine. The problem is that most X software expects to be able to play around in the X tree and I've seen enough cases of this to stop arguing about it. Think app-defaults if nothing else. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
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