vmware3 on FreeBSD 4.11 and 5.4

[Mark Linimon]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:22:37PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> There's no formal requirement listed in the porters handbook, which ports
> belong into which PREFIX. The current situation is, that most ports which
> depend upon (and use) X11 install into X11BASE. Some people interprete
> hier(8) as if those ports should be in LOCALBASE and only X11 itself is
> allowed to be in X11BASE, and some people think hier(8) tells the people to
> install ports which make use of X11 into X11BASE too. Currently we maintain
> a status quo in the ports collection (proceed with the current behavior to
> install ports which make active use of X11 into X11BASE).

There's no requirement because we've not been able to get everyone to agree.

The real solution is to make sure that ports will install to alternative
locations of LOCALBASE and X11BASE (a recent regression test exposed many
of the former).  Once that's done, perhaps we can consider doing away
with the historical artifact of X11BASE forever.

mcl