Great work. Emerging now.
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:05:52 -0800, Donnie Berkholz
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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."
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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