Re: pkg/33869: can't install meta-pkgs/{xorg,XFree86} into /usr/X11R6

[joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/33869; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33869: can't install meta-pkgs/{xorg,XFree86} into /usr/X11R6
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:42:03 +0200

 On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 11:20:00PM +0000, bad%bsd.de@localhost wrote:
 > By my reading of meta-pkgs/xorg/Makefile.common one could force 
 > meta-pkgs/xorg
 > into installing into /usr/X11R6 by e.g. setting X11ROOT in /etc/mk.conf.
 > However, this doesn't work because mk/bsd.prefx.mk sets:
 > X11BASE?=               ${LOCALBASE}/${X11ROOT_PREFIX}
 > instead of using X11ROOT.
 
 No, this is not supported at all and not supposed to work either.
 pkgsrc stuff is not supposed to leave ${LOCALBASE} and X11BASE is
 entirely for the sake of X11TYPE=native.
 
 Joerg