Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:25:35 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE Message-ID: <1153322735.70633.32.camel@mayday.esat.net> In-Reply-To: <86mzb6d7gl.fsf@xps.des.no> References: <200607130024.18047.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <44B740A5.6050709@FreeBSD.org> <200607141300.43547.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <86mzb6d7gl.fsf@xps.des.no>
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--=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 21:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> writes: > > [...] as far as X.org 7 ports themselves go, they right now already > > happily build and install under /usr/X11R6 prefix [...] >=20 > This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7. >=20 > BTW, I am constantly amazed at FreeBSD ports maintainers' continued > insistence that X, Y or Z "can't be done" when in fact everybody else > is already doing it, and FreeBSD is the odd one out with innumberable > hacks and tweaks to make it work "our way" instead of the way > everybody else does it. This debate is a perfect example of this: the > rest of the world already installs everything (X, KDE, Gnome...) under > a single prefix - usually /usr - yet FreeBSD port maintainers insist > that it can't possibly be done. Nobody says it can't be done. The fact we've had two different prefixes for such a long time just created possible collisions when it comes to merging them. --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEvk7vMxEkbVFH3PQRAvWLAJ4vFG7bex3xaig4FFfo8vfxWyRFswCfWf3/ B/dRPmI8QJT63NAFIRg8Vss= =HhN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-iWj8Q9SS4HoaEtxve1OL--
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