RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

[Fred Cox]

What about duplicated file names?

On my desktop:

[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l /usr/{X11R6,local}/man/whatis 
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  162506 Jul  8 04:15
/usr/X11R6/man/whatis
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   48606 Jul  8 04:15
/usr/local/man/whatis
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13 May  7 14:20
/usr/X11R6/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13 May  7 14:20
/usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/XMLnamespaces         
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   0 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/X11R6/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  56 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/local/share/mime/XMLnamespaces
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/aliases      
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     0 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/X11R6/share/mime/aliases
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2038 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/local/share/mime/aliases
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/globs  
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     92 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/X11R6/share/mime/globs
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  12850 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/local/share/mime/globs
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/magic
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     12 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/X11R6/share/mime/magic
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  11275 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/local/share/mime/magic
[fred at speedy ~]$ ls -l
/usr/{X11R6,local}/share/mime/subclasses
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     0 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/X11R6/share/mime/subclasses
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3202 Mar 26 00:05
/usr/local/share/mime/subclasses

--- John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > There were a couple of debates already concerning
> /usr/X11R6 as prefix for X11 
> > ports and a bunch of other ports that currently by
> default install there. 
> > Quite some people were, when creating a new port
> that depends on X11, 
> > wandering whether to put it in X11BASE or
> LOCALBASE. More than once a 
> > question of whether the prefix /usr/X11R6 should
> be just dropped or at least 
> > only retained for core X11 distribution. With the
> upcoming X.org 7.x ports 
> > there is perhaps the opportunity to do the prefix
> merger along that.
> > Moving X11 prefix to LOCALBASE would simplify
> above dilemma. It would be also 
> > more similar to where linux distributions are
> going (at least Gentoo, Debian 
> > and Fedora deprecated /usr/X11R6 in favour of /usr
> which, while 
> > not /usr/local is the location of where all
> packages install - depending on 
> > X11 or not). If I remember correctly from previous
> discussions, it would be 
> > more convenient to people with separate mounts for
> installed packages as 
> > well. /usr/local is also the default value for
> --prefix configure option for 
> > X.org packages.
> > So it is general intention to go with /usr/local
> or rather ${LOCALBASE} as 
> > prefix for X11 ports. If anyone feels that this is
> horribly wrong, please 
> > speak up.
> >
> > On behalf of x11 team,
> > Dejan
> >   
> What impact (if any) would the doubling or tripling
> of the number of 
> files in ./bin have on searching along PATH? Would
> we be shooting 
> ourselves in the foot if we did this?
> 
> jmc
> 
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