xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE

[Parv]

in message <456C799B.9010800 at FreeBSD.org>,
wrote Doug Barton thusly...
>
> When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into /usr/local.
> Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE stuff
> altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local.
> 
> In order to prepare for this change, and to fix as many ports as
> possible before it happens, the ports cluster has started running
> experimental builds with X11BASE set to something that is not
> /usr/X11R6 AND not /usr/local. So, you can easily reproduce this
> condition by doing the same thing yourself.
...
> There are two ways to do this. Either way you choose, you have to
> put something like this in /etc/make.conf:  X11BASE=
> /usr/local/xorg I chose that directory for my experiment, you can
> use whatever directory works for you that is NOT /usr/X11R6 or
> /usr/local.

I have been using X11BASE=/misc/local/X (set in /etc/rc.conf;
/usr/X11R6 is symlinked to it) at least since Dec 2006 (Xorg 6.2).
So far I have not noticed any problems with 343-some ports (which do
not have a great deal of GNOME or KDE).

Short of testing with full blown GNONE|KDE, is there anything else I
can try to test?  Should I try without the /usr/X11R6 symlink?


  - Parv

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