Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:16:29 -0700 From: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com> To: kientzle@netcom.com Cc: hua@chromatic.com, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux async vs. FreeBSD sync (fwd) Message-ID: <199608290016.RAA01967@server1.chromatic.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:01:48 PDT." <199608290001.RAA15080@netcom11.netcom.com>
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> various custom files. I'd actually forgotten about app-defaults, I'll > have to add that in; one of my goals is to divorce the `X11 > distribution' from the locally-installed software so that the X11 > system can be upgraded independently. Moving individual applications' Funny you should mention this. I have ended up keeping the X part of /usr/local logically separate for precisely these reasons, and one more: When I was using SunOS, I preferred MIT X (mostly because they were at least 2 years ahead of OpenWindows). However, some applications just really needed to run on OpenWindows, so I had to isolate X from the rest of the apps because which window system I choose when invoking an app was very much context dependent. My solution was too ugly to mention, but the MIT and the OpenWindows apps got along fine. Ern
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