On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > policy sais nothing. fsstnd and fhs draft are not exact. > current decission of our policy manager is to place all x11 programs and > their files in /usr/X11R6. > > my opinion : /usr/X11* exists for historic reasons. the x11 system (in > our case xfree86) and related files (e.g. window manager) should go into > /usr/X11R6. but i see no need to place everything in there, only because > it needs x11. > > the only reason to place a file in /usr/X11R6 is > "we always did it this way". but we never placed kde in that diretory, > and i dont see why we should. it doesnt use xresource and it also doesnt > use many other features, and has its own way (e.g. menu system, mime > system ...).
As stated earlier, I believe binaries that REQUIRE X to run should be in /usr/X11R6/bin, since I can then yank that from my path if I'm not in X. If it only is linked to the X libs, but doesn't require it (emacs, xemacs), then stick it in /usr/bin.
