Dropping X11BASE in favour for LOCALBASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 10/19/06 15:14, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> >>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?
> >
> >It wasn't an "announcement", it was a description of future plans.  I
> >don't know who is actively working on it.
> 
> But /usr/ports/UPDATING reads:
> 20061014:
>   AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users
>   AUTHOR: gnome at FreeBSD.org
> 
>   GNOME has been updated to 2.16. All GTK+2 and GNOME components have
>   been moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local). To
>   upgrade your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need
>   to use either sysutils/portupgrade or sysutils/portmaster. To use
>   portmaster, make sure you have least 1.9 version to have the
>   upgrade success.

Right, as it says GNOME moved to LOCALBASE but everything else in
X11BASE is still there.

kris

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