RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jul 13 18:22:46 UTC 2006


Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> That said, GNOME's move to LOCALBASE will not be too problematic. šIn
>> fact, the number of required patches might drop off. šI'd be willing to
>> bet that if someone did X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} and installed GNOME on a
>> clean machine right now, it would work.
> 
> I have both of these -- X11BASE and LOCALBASE -- set to "/opt" on all of my 
> machines since about 6 years ago. Works fine.

I can second that using /opt as a target seems to work fine, although I've 
only done so for a few machines which had a big /opt partition handy for one 
reason or another; I don't use /opt by default.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck



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