RFC: Merging X11BASE to LOCALBASE

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Fri Jul 14 04:53:17 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:24:03AM +0200, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> Quite some people were, when creating a new port that depends on X11, 
> wandering whether to put it in X11BASE or LOCALBASE. More than once a 
> question of whether the prefix /usr/X11R6 should be just dropped or at least 
> only retained for core X11 distribution. With the upcoming X.org 7.x ports 
> there is perhaps the opportunity to do the prefix merger along that.

One of the issues is, what will be the policy for ports which use
imake? The rest of "my" ports are happily living in /usr/local now,
but only games/sol isn't done because I don't kno whow to tackle
the imake thing.

Edwin

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