Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE

Michael Johnson ahze at ahze.net
Thu Oct 19 16:04:22 UTC 2006


On 10/19/06, Marcus von Appen <mva at sysfault.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be
> dropped in favour for LOCALBASE.
>
> Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should
> we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro
> when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides
> that?

You shouldn't just remove USE_X_PREFIX, many cases ports
will need USE_XLIB if USE_X_PREFIX is removed.

>
> A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-).
>
> Regards
> Marcus
>
>
>


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