On 7/19/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/19/05 16:33 CST:
>
> > 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, ...
>
> I've never looked at having to add something to the PATH or
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH vars as a hack. I look at it as sysadmin.
Perspective :)
>
>
> > 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).
>
> I suppose. However, I'm not sure "small fraction" is accurate. :-)
I started installing X into /usr long time back and have had to patch
only 2-3 packages. I *think* Gentoo has moved X11 to /usr so
eventually most of the packages should get fixed.
> I guess, being very old school when it comes to Unix, that since
> /usr/X11R? has been a valid (and only) path for the installation
> of X windows on most of the Unix operating systems I've worked on
> over the years, that I simply *expect* it to be there. :-)
The systems we have at work (HP-UX and Tru64) don't have X in
/usr/X11*. Traditionally X has been installed in
/usr/{bin,include,lib}/X11. /usr/X11* came in much later.
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