Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 09:48 schrieb ext darren kirby: > quoth the Dirk Heinrichs: > > Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 02:48 schrieb ext Matthias Langer: > > > ..., but i doubt that this behavour is intended. > > > > Yes, it is. > > Well, thanks for that thorough explanation...
You're welcome :-)
This post [1] to gentoo-dev has it all: Having a separate directory for X
(/usr/X11R6) is not needed and also not FHS compliant (although FHS
explicitely lists it as an exception). Major distribution vendors and Xorg
project itself are migrating away from this.
I'd guess the link is still there for backward compatibility and will be
removed at some point in the future, when all packages which insist on
installing into /usr/X11R6 are fixed.
HTH...
Dirk
[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/25026
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