RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

[Albert Vest]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:43:54 +0200
des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote:

> Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak at ijs.si> writes:
> > [...] as far as X.org 7 ports themselves go, they right now already
> > happily build and install under /usr/X11R6 prefix [...]
> 
> This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7.

I was wondering when someone would mention that (6 -> 7).  Forgive a newbie question, but was there a similar discussion when the X11R5 -> X11R6 change was in the works?  Why did it resolve the way it did?

Thanks,
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Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net