On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:08:48 -0600
Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 1/9/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tushar Teredesai wrote:
> > >
> > > Agreed, it should either be /usr (my preference) or /usr/X11R7
> > > (the appropriate version).
> >
> > My preference is /usr/X11R7.
> 
> Though that will break a lot of packages that hard code the paths to X
> (I think most of them check /usr, /usr/X11R6, /opt/X11R6, ...).

This, IMO, is a 'Good Thing' (tm).  Packages with hardwired paths are
evil and need to be fixed upstream.  From our perspective it should
only be a sed to fix in the mean time.

I like /usr as I don't see why x-windows is any different to, say, bash.

R.

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