Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:47:31 -0500 From: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net> To: KDE FreeBSD List <kde-freebsd@lists.csociety.org> Cc: jmz@FreeBSD.org, taguchi@tohoku.iij.ad.jp, FreeBSD Ports List <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: XFree86-4.1.0 ports have inconsistent directory structure Message-ID: <20011125224731.A43457@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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Lauri,
You had mentioned about kdmrc pointing to the files in /etc/X11/xdm.
I had a long chat with Pete F. on IRC tonight and one of the things we
established was that you can't count on what directories things like xdm
will end up in for people that installed XFree86-4.x ports.
The mega-package, XFree86-4.1.0_10.tgz, has an /etc/X11 directory. The xdm
helper scripts will go in /etc/X11/xdm.
The individual packages, in particular XFree86-clients-4.1.0_1.tgz, do not
have an /etc/X11 directory. In these packages, the contents of /etc/X11 are
located under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, like they are in XFree86-3.3.6.
The problem here is that you can't make a package that will work on both
types of installations, unless you do something really horrendous and, e.g.,
force a symlnk /etc/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 in the case that /etc/X11
doesn't exist.
The real problem, of course is that the XFree86-4 packages aren't
consistent. This note is copied to the maintainers of those packages in
order to make them aware of this situation.
--
Alan Eldridge
#include <cstdlib>
free(sklyarov);
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