Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 08:14:22 -0600 From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@SSEC.WISC.EDU> To: tim@sssun.spb.su Cc: "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: <199601291414.IAA20989@tick.SSEC.WISC.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:39:51 %2B0300." <GGtYS2nSST@sssun.spb.su>
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> 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...
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