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[Adam Weinberger]

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.

For the meantime, stuff should go into X11BASE, where everything X-based 
except for KDE and OOo is, and should become part of the list of stuff 
to be moved to LOCALBASE.

If you can come up with a deployment plan to leave xorg in X11BASE and 
move everything else out, *please* let us know! But arguing about how 
things are wrong now won't solve much.

# Adam


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