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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:15:15 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org>, will@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, Jimmy Olgeni <olgeni@uli.it>
Subject:   Re: sysinstall, time zone selection and /etc/X11
Message-ID:  <20020605231515.GP53809@squall.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020605161126.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20020605125052.G25483@freebsdmall.com> <XFMail.20020605161126.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 04:11:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Or rather, an update to the root mtree file.
> > 
> >   I think this belongs in the plist for the package, not in the root
> > mtree file.  Will?
> 
> But the X packages use /usr/X11R6 as their package root.  Maybe if the
> config files were in /usr/X11R6/etc/X11 (or /usr/X11R6/etc) instead of
> /etc/X11 then that would make sense.

XFree86 reads files in several locations.  There's no reason
sysinstall couldn't put the ones it makes in /etc/X11.  XFree86
will still find them and use the right config.

I'm not sure what you're asking me to change in the XFree86-4
plists.  If you mean adding /etc/X11 to it, that's out of the
question.  That breaks hier(7) and is not necessary, since one
could always put configs there or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 or wherever
they feel like putting them.  I don't think packages are supposed
to delete their config files if removed.

Regards,
-- 
wca

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