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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:23:55 +0000
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>, Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net>
Subject:   Re: xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE
Message-ID:  <456D5FBB.50704@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061129015606.GA74224@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:44:25PM +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Joel Dahl wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 18:24 +0000, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>>> Doug Barton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Currently we have 2 locations for files installed by ports. LOCALBA=
SE
>>>>> (which defaults to /usr/local) and X11BASE (which defaults to
>>>>> /usr/X11R6). When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into
>>>>> /usr/local.
>>>> I don't know where you guys read that.
>>> Well, some of us might remember
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2006-July/033964.htm=
l
>> I've been talking to Dejan at that time but I can't remember if I
>> actually meant that we were going to add new X.org directly in
>> LOCALBASE. Though I haven't tried to contact him for a while, I guess
>> he's been busy with other things these days.
>>
>> I somehow inherited a x11 hat and IMHO, it would be better to move to
>> LOCALBASE after we moved everything else and made sure all ports were
>> X11BASE-clean.
>=20
> I guess I was also mistaken about the intentions as well.

I actually thought of moving everything but libs and fonts to LOCALBASE.

=2E.. but if miwi manages to fix all non X11BASE-clean ports and move the=
m
to LOCALBASE within a month then we can install the complete X.org 7.2
distribution in LOCALBASE :-)

> Anyway, the
> good news is that there are only a few hundred X11BASE-unclean errors
> (less than I'd thought), so this is something we can keep pushing on
> for now.

I guess the next exp-build will be with X11BASE set to LOCALBASE then.

Note: We might get runtime problems if some hardcoded /usr/X11R6 remain
in source files though.

--=20
Florent Thoumie


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