XFree86->xorg-x11 conversion
Mike A. Harris
mharris at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 22:13:28 UTC 2004
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> would it be feasible to just add a symlink, and use a generic name like
>> "/usr/X11/lib"? surely that wouldn't cause a great deal of confusion,
>> would it? at the moment, there's no directory named /usr/X11.
>
>Does ld.conf break if the directory isn't there? Think about systems that
>don't have X, no /usr/X11. In fact, the whole idea of splitting
>everything out into /usr/X11Whatever is unclean. IMHO it should all be in
>/usr/lib with the rest of the system libraries.
Indeed, and many others feel this way upstream also. There will
likely be a transition from using /usr/X11R6 to just using /usr
in the next year or so from upstream. Some things are already
using it.
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Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat
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