>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:32:05 -0500
>From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>
>
>> /usr/bin/install -c   xmeter /tmp/usr/X11R6/bin/xmeter
>> /usr/bin/install -c -m 0444 XMeter.ad /tmp/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XMeter
>
>That's exactly right; then you just pick those up and drop them into
>the package, and they come out in the expected full path locations on
>the other end. (So the package "depends" on the X11R6
>installation. That's fine...) You *want* to install things where
>people will find them after all, and that means X programs go in
>/usr/X11R6/bin. 

You can install X11 apps anywhere, as long as you set XFILESEARCHPATH
appropriately in the system-wide Xinitrc.  (right?)
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