RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

[michael johnson]

On 7/13/06, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:56 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 04:48:39PM -0700, Fred Cox wrote:
> > > Those man pages for whatis are pretty radically
> > > different in size.  Maybe they are mergeable, but
> > > there's going to be a fair amount of work doing that
> > > for all possible conflicts.
> >
> > They are generated files see makewhatis(1).  There will probably be a
> > few real conflicts, but it's unlikely to be a serious issue.
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> It may be more serious than you think.  Currently, GNOME and KDE will
> conflict with each other if this move happens.  We will have to either
> come up with a new pseudo-port to handle common files, or find some
> other way of consolidating things.
>
> That said, GNOME's move to LOCALBASE will not be too problematic.  In
> fact, the number of required patches might drop off.  I'd be willing to
> bet that if someone did X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} and installed GNOME on a
> clean machine right now, it would work.


It does I tested this not long ago.


Joe
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