Why is KDE installing in LOCALBASE; not X11BASE?

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Tue Sep 23 06:40:19 PDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:36:22PM +1000, Christopher Vance wrote:
> On NetBSD and OpenBSD (yeah, I know ...) X is kept in CVS and built
> like regular system sources.
> 
> FreeBSD doesn't do this any more and uses regular ports instead.  I

FreeBSD never did it that way.  That's a really bad approach IMHO
and I never saw a good reason for it.  There's nothing that
special about XFree86.

Regards,
-- 
wca


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