Manoj Srivastava wrote: > One reason that I have encuntered in the past was the need to > maintain a working, older version of X (say, R6) while toying with a > newer release (say, R7). Having separate directories in /usr allowed > my to have both versions installed on the machine (this was a > departmental server). > > This allowed some people to defer transition until all the > dependent packages were ported over (there were indeed some > that needed porting, espescially between R10 and R11). The > adventurous souls just appended to the PATH variable, initially.
You could do much the same thing though, if X were in /usr/ and you put R7 in /usr/X11R7 temporarily. Just _prepend_ /usr/X11R7/bin/ to the path. Or put R7 in /usr/local/. -- see shy jo
