RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

Fred Cox sailorfred at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 12 23:49:13 UTC 2006


Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically
different in size.  Maybe they are mergeable, but
there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that
for all possible conflicts.

I don't have all the ports installed on my machine, so
this is not a complete list.

Fred
--- michael johnson <ahze at ahze.net> wrote:

> On 7/12/06, Fred Cox <sailorfred at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> 
> 
> alot of this could be merged, ie: all the .cache
> files
> are dynamicly updated when ports that have mime
> info or have icons are installed or deinstall.
> 
> 
> --- 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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