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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:01 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE
Message-ID:  <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org>
References:  <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org>

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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be
> dropped in favour for LOCALBASE.
>=20
> Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should
> we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro
> when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides
> that?=20
>=20
> A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-).

It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put
in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded
knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway).

Kris

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