On 7/19/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tush, > > You wrote: > > > FontDir is set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and DocDir is set to > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc. > > Ahh... > > I can see your point. However, my personal preference is that > for packages that install to a personalized location, such as > packages installed in /opt/whatever, I like everything self > included in the personalized hierarchy (except for maybe stuff > that goes in /etc).
My personal preference is to put everything in /usr since that for me proved to have the least maintainence. No more hacks needed for PATH, CPPFLAGS, PKG_CONFIG_PATH, ... > > However, that is just my preference. And the more I think > about it, the more I lean to /usr/share/doc for docs, so could > easily be persuaded to put docs there. > > As far as /usr/X11R6, there are *so* many packages out there > that expect X to be there that BLFS would have to create a > symlink to avoid breakages. That being the case what advantage > is there in giving users an opportunity to set $PREFIX? > Except for a small fraction of packages that hardcode /usr/X11R6, most of the packages have no problems finding X that is installed in /usr (or /opt/X as long as the proper env vars are defined). -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
