Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
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. Bye... Dirk Well, thanks for that thorough explanation... -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 pgpPzcfoN0byV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
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 -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hambornerstraße 55 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40472 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net pgpxAFBTAL40N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong. Instead, it should point to /usr, i.e. the directory containing the sym link. Reading the subject of your mail, I guess that's the case for you, too. But above you said otherwise (pointing to itself)... It's due to the fact that X11 is distro-managed and as such there's little reason to keep it in an extra location. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
Holly Bostick wrote: Hans-Werner Hilse schreef: Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong. Instead, it should point to /usr, i.e. the directory containing the sym link. Reading the subject of your mail, I guess that's the case for you, too. But above you said otherwise (pointing to itself)... On my box, the X11R6 symlink in /usr points to /usr (recursive, thus, like the 'boot' symlink in /boot). Interesting. On mine, /usr/X11R6 is a directory, that contains a symlink /usr/X11R6/X11R6 which points to /usr. I suspect this is probably the same as the OP. I guess I need to take a close look at baselayout to see how I got into this mess. Cheers, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
Richard Fish wrote: Interesting. On mine, /usr/X11R6 is a directory, that contains a symlink /usr/X11R6/X11R6 which points to /usr. I suspect this is probably the same as the OP. I guess I need to take a close look at baselayout to see how I got into this mess. Nevermind, I take that back. I got thrown by the output of ls -ld /usr/X11R6/. I should not have had the trailing slash on that... carcharias ~ # ls -ld /usr/X11R6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Sep 26 21:17 /usr/X11R6 - ../usr -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong. Instead, it should point to /usr, i.e. the directory containing the sym link. Reading the subject of your mail, I guess that's the case for you, too. But above you said otherwise (pointing to itself)... Well you are right: ls -l in /usr: ... X11R6 - ../usr ... Matthias It's due to the fact that X11 is distro-managed and as such there's little reason to keep it in an extra location. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that this behavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't change after removing the symlink and reemerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4. Any comments, or should i file a bug ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....
I have noticed the same thing, and no removin the symlink or reemerging xorg doesnt seem to work either Daniel Faulknor On 10/5/05, Matthias Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself -leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this message ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that thisbehavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't changeafter removing the symlink and reemerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4.Any comments, or should i file a bug ? --gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list-- www.dannz.net.nz
