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Donnie Berkholz wrote: | I just committed it with KEYWORDS="-*" because I need some brave | testers. I already tested every possibility of which I could think of | version changes resulting in an upgrade to 6.8.1.903 and things seem to | be working fine now. | | The most significant change is that it migrates all of /usr/X11R6 to | /usr and symlinks /usr/X11R6 -> /usr.
In the wake of a sea of confusion, "huh?"s and "what?"s about this ...
We're eliminating a historical FHS exception for /usr/X11R6. This is moving in a direction that distribution X packagers are interested in moving, and a direction that upstream seems to be moving.
I've already widely publicized parts of this move -- >=6.8.0-r4 install
to /usr/lib, ebuilds as far back as xfree installed fonts to
/usr/share/fonts and docs to /usr/share/doc/${P}. This ebuild simply
finishes the move with include/ and bin/, then creates a top-level
symlink at /usr/X11R6 instead of many deeper ones.If one builds vanilla upstream X with ProjectRoot undefined, it would install to roughly the same locations as we are now using.
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x-packagers/2004-April/000017.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x-packagers/2004-February/000002.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/x-packagers/2004-February/000005.html http://bugs.freestandards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html: /usr/X11R6 : X Window System, Version 11 Release 6 (optional) "An exception is made for the X Window System because of considerable precedent and widely-accepted practice."
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