Luca wrote:

> I imagine about the prefix of Xorg, what I was really asking
 > was why not maintaing the blfs-6.2 syntax to change the prefix
 > of each package looking for Xorg instead of creating the links.

Actually, I don't quite remember why. I think it was because
we decided it was cumbersome to identify each package that
looks for X in a specific location (/usr/X11R6). If I recall
correctly, there was some package (could have even been a
package not in BLFS) where the hard-coded /usr/X11R6 was not
noted, so there was breakage.

Again, if I recall correctly, we decided to create the symlinks
because that way *all* packages will *always* work, providing
they look for X in /usr/X1R6.

The older way (BLFS-6.2 method) required us to keep up with
packages that hard code X's location. This new method doesn't
require us to do that. So it turns out to be much less of a
maintenance burden on us.

Feel free to use whichever method works best for you.

-- 
Randy

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