Request for volunteers to help track down packages that use /usr/X11R6

[Peter Lemenkov]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Mike A. Harris wrote:

> Overview:
> ~~~~~~~~
> The X.Org Foundation has finally changed X11 to install itself
> into the /usr heirarchy by default instead of the /usr/X11R6
> hierarchy.  The basic rationale is that with modern packaging
> systems like rpm, deb, etc., there is no need to isolate the
> X Window System into its own private hierarchy on the filesystem.
>
> Originally, the /usr/X11R6 directory was intended to strictly
> be the location where X11R6 itself would get installed.  Over
> time however various other 3rd party software packages, addons
> and other stuff has infiltrated into the /usr/X11R6 heirarchy
> for no really good reason, and some of it still sits in there
> today.

# ln -s /usr /usr/X11R6

and forget about this problem...
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With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.