On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 06:40:30PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > Wouldn't bother me if we whacked /usr/X11R6 altogether and just moved all > > its stuff into the FHS-compliant places, and left behind the appropriate > > symlinks. > > > > I have no idea if/how this would break existing stuff, though. > > i see no reason not why it should not work. the dirs under X11R6 prefectly > integrate into /usr. and this solves problems like what to do with share and > libexec (X11R6/share or share/X11 ? X11R6/libexec or libexec/X11 ?). > > two share tree's doesn't make sence to me..
FWIW, this would be my first preference (doing away with /usr/X11R6 altogether). As has already been noted, the current /usr/X11R6 hirerarchy would fit nicely if it were simply moved to /usr. I doubt this is just a coincidence. A symlink from /usr/X11R6 to /usr could be used until the transition was completed. However, I suspect there would be tremendous oppoisition to doing this. On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 09:35:00AM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > i vote for > c) every package that is installed by default into X11 > > this way X11, fvwm and such stuff will go into X11R6, but tcl/tk, gnome, kde, > gvim, and most other stuff will not use it. Taking a more pragmatic approach, this is probably the best way to go. In this case the following rules of thumb would apply. If a package uses xmkmf, use the defaults which would put it under /usr/X11R6. If a package uses autoconf, use --prefix=/usr when running configure which would put it under /usr. David -- David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
