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[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 05:16:25PM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> >On Saturday, 18. June 2005 00:59, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> >>   - Use the correct prefix (X11- instead of LOCAL- or LINUX-) for some
> >>ports. Chase dependencies for this.
> >
> >I know I'm late to the party, but I'm really wondering what that is meant 
> >to accomplish.
> >
> >X_PREFIX is *not* the 'correct' prefix for *anything* but the X11 
> >distribution - the fact that there's a truckload of other stuff in there 
> >is an age-old bug. We *should* be moving stuff *out* of X_PREFIX en masse, 
> >but I know how likely that is to happen. We *really should NOT*, however, 
> >keep putting *new* stuff in there.
> 
> lofi -
> 
> You're kindof beating a dead horse here. Many, many people agree with 
> you here, and the topic received widespread support when I brought it up 
> at the BSCan ports BoF. The issue isn't whether stuff should go into 
> LOCALBASE instead of X11BASE, it's how to deploy a mass migration.

Then please update hier(7) - it is quite ambiguous after seeing how
Michael Nottebrock is interrupting it.  I am a native English
speaker/writer/reader and I read hier(7) the same as Alexander Leidinger.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)