Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:48:06 +0100 From: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports for X11 stuff Message-ID: <19980303094806.16915@deepo.prosa.dk> In-Reply-To: <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 08:44:13PM -0800 References: <199803021952.LAA26193@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> <199803030444.UAA15161@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith writes:
> >
> > 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.
IMHO, not if you _ask_ the user before you proceed, as in:
Choices:
1. Auto size /usr ?
2. install in other partition and symlink ?
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