On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:52:55AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost> writes:
> > 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.
>
> That's easily arranged -- at worst, you can just
>
> cat /etc/mtree/set.x* | awk '{print $1}' | xargs rm
>
> and it will vanish, whether it is in its own directory or not.
To me, "easily whackable" means I get my .45 and shoot in the head.
Having to get my long-distance rifle, and then wait on the roof of the
opposite building for the X client to get out... Not so easy.
Yeah, yeah, I know, you can always hire a hit man. But what's the fun
in that?
> > I still prefer X11R7.
>
> Unfortunately, my feelings aren't very strong either.
>
> (BTW, if one went with /usr/X11, arguably /usr/X/ would be just as
> good...)
I think I saw X11R7 before (some SuSE? Fedora seems to have everything
in /usr/{bin,lib}), but always coming along with a /usr/X11 symlink. So
/usr/X11 it may be.
My main point is: X11R6 is wrong.
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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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