Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE

[Marcus von Appen]

On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen 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? 
> > 
> > A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-).
> 
> It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put
> in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded
> knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway).

So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE
section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE
will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever
possible from now on?

Regards
Marcus
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