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> p.s. I'm going to leave xkb where I, personally,
> currently have it, inside SUNWxorg-data (partially
> derived from Moinak's work).

Okay, that is of course poor engineering. I have moved the xkb stuff to our own 
version of SUNWxorg-xkb. No different packages should ever interfere with one 
another. Especially not, if they even share the same name-prefix. Now, with our 
own version of SUNWxorg-xkb, we can force users to first uninstall the 
Sun-provided SUNWxorg-xkb package, before installing ours (exclusive version), 
or just  to omit installing our pkg if SUNWxorg-xkb happens to be installed 
already (maybe adding a hint to the README).

An even better way might have been, to call our pkg something like 
SUNWxorg-fox_xkb. But we would then be required to install stuff into different 
locations (i.e. "share" instead of "lib"). But this would involve adding too 
much more logic to everything else that ever points to xkb. And then the 
question would always be, to which distributor provided xkb flavour to point to.

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%martin
 
 
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