Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:14:13 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE Message-ID: <20061019201413.GA35696@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org> References: <20061019160142.GA2023@medusa.sysfault.org> <20061019191801.GA34713@xor.obsecurity.org> <20061019195516.GC2023@medusa.sysfault.org>
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--wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 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 sho= uld > > > 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 = :-). > >=20 > > 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). >=20 > So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE > section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE > will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever > possible from now on? It wasn't an "announcement", it was a description of future plans. I don't know who is actively working on it. Kris --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFN9yVWry0BWjoQKURAkmsAJsHEzynzdwANTi/PwCiKxOxyWbZgwCdECEL /9LT9JXNzqunL5gTVn7Gq9Y= =25XW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--
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