On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 10:12:05PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The reason is following: > > * You don't need to do changes if later mutliple frontends are available. > * /usr/X11R6 is reserved for X server stuff, like servers, window-managers, > and things that come with X distribution. It should not be used for X > applications or clients. > > Unfortunately, this is not handled in a common and consistent way, but quite > a lot people prefer /usr/bin/ even for the X server stuff, too. I don't want > to argue about it, but it really makes sense for X applications which don't > come with the X distribution to stay in /usr/bin.
I'm sure that we've discussed this before on debian-policy, and that policy currently says all X applications should install in /usr/X11R6/. I think this is very wrong, but that's what policy says. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
