policy sais nothing. fsstnd and fhs draft are not exact. current decission of our policy manager is to place all x11 programs and their files in /usr/X11R6.
my opinion : /usr/X11* exists for historic reasons. the x11 system (in our case xfree86) and related files (e.g. window manager) should go into /usr/X11R6. but i see no need to place everything in there, only because it needs x11. the only reason to place a file in /usr/X11R6 is "we always did it this way". but we never placed kde in that diretory, and i dont see why we should. it doesnt use xresource and it also doesnt use many other features, and has its own way (e.g. menu system, mime system ...). we all can agree, that neither vim nor dos should go into /usr/X11R6 : these are no native x11 applications, they are only x11 enabled. currently nearly all other x11 applications are in /usr/X11R6/bin, but not all (e.g. wish), and when we look at manpages and libraries, there is not much of a standard (amaya, cam, cthugha, ddd, civ, hotjava, ical, jdk, gtk-dev(include files ?), minicom, wine, xaw3d, xemacs) ok, it's not many programs, but it shows that we dont have a definitiv standard. hotjava moving to x11 ? moving java to x11 ? both doesnt make sence to me. both are very special programs, and so is kde and there will be also others. what do you think ? andreas
