On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:36:21AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost> writes: > >> Installing in /usr/X11R7 where it belongs would mean least > >> disruption I think (i.e., you could keep the /usr/X11R6 tree until > >> you have your packages fully updated). > > > > Another possibility would be to switch to /usr/X11 and then it would > > never need to get updated again. > > Yet another possibility: why not just install the libraries in > /usr/lib, the binaries in /usr/bin, etc? Perhaps the whole /usr/X11R? > thing is an "onion". I don't have a very strong opinion about this, but I like all the X stuff to be whackable easily and kept out of root's $PATH and stuff like that. I still prefer X11R7. -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost "See the look on my face from staying too long in one place [...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling" KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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