From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Feb 6 18:49:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B26A37B4EC; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:49:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmz@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f172nP434107; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:49:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmz@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:49:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200102070249.f172nP434107@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: jmz set sender to jmz@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" Cc: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" , ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: XFree86-4 and /etc In-Reply-To: References: <200102062303.f16N3Vr03460@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> Carlos A M dos Santos writes: > Using /etc is good when you have one machine to configure. If you have > lots of them, its a nightmare! Please keep the things the way they are and > let the system administrator choose the policy. But the *default* in XFree-4 is to install in /etc, not in /usr/X11R6/etc (look at the Xserver man page for instance). However it is easy to choose the location of the etc files before compiling XFree. I will add an option in the configure script. Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc Zucconi -- PGP Key: finger jmz@FreeBSD.org [KeyID: 400B38E9] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message