Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:44:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:52:43 PST." <199803021952.LAA26193@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
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> * A question - would it be desirable for X to be installed, by default, > * somewhere *else*, and just symlinked into /usr? Should it go in > * /usr/local, so that an experienced admin can assign a separate > * filesystem for this? > > Yes. > > Actually, if you can do something like "if /usr/local is a separate > filesystem from /usr or a symlink to a directory in a separate > filesystem from /usr, then make /usr/X11R6 a symlink into > /usr/local/X11R6", that will be great, but that's probably asking too > much. :) It's quite achievable; the question is (as Jordan asked) whether it's going to surprise people that *expect* it to be in /usr. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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