On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:13:08 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> BTW, I built in /opt/xorg.  I like to do that so I can build another 
> version of xorg without changing the current programs that would be the 
> case if installing in /usr.

I think you're very brave to do that. I think reinstalling a newer
version of xorg would break pango and cairo and everything that depends
on them (ie, pretty much anything that uses xorg). Command line
programs would work but trying to get any GUI things working again
would be a nightmare. You'd have a mass of things in /usr that were
compiled against the old xorg. Reinstalling the apps may work, but they
may try to link against the old broken stuff. If you want to reinstall
xorg it's easier to just redo the whole system than to try and deal
with the brokeness.

Andy
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