Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > When installing all the currently available Xfree86 packages at once together with >lesstif, > lesstif is installed first. Then > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/host.def (1790 bytes) > > gets overwritten by > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config/host.def from Xfree86-prog-4.2.0-1 (1 byte)
Looks like host.def should not be included in either package; rather, each should munge host.def appropriately, using a postinstall script. > Also, shouldn't the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults directory from lesstif > go in /etc/X11/app-defaults ? > > Right now I have the following in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: > > app-defaults.lnk <- a link to /etc/X11/app-defaults > Mwm > Hmm...I was a bit confused by the "reverse linking" too. I think the directories in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* should all be "real" directories with "real" contents. XFree86-base should have a postinstall script that creates /etc/X11, and populates it with symlinks back to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* (currently, I believe it is the other way around). I *think* doing it "my" way will prevent these problems... > Last point, there is an empty directory /usr/X11R6/lib/locale (from lesstif). > What is it good for ? The translation dictionaries for X-based programs should go into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale (*) The translation dictionaries for non-X-based programs should go into /usr/share/locale/ (*) I dunno why, but that's where all the Linux dists that I know about put them. Which is why, when I released gettext-0.10.40 last December, I configured it with alias_path='/usr/share/locale:/usr/local/share/locale:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale' /usr/X11R6/lib/locale should not exist (and should be empty if it does exist). ditto /usr/lib/locale -- but a recent packaging bug in findutils put its tbls there. Bad cgf, no cookie. :-) --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
