On 7/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


--- Jeremy Messenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto:


>
> Nobody should install both xorg and xfree86 at the same time. It's
pretty
> pointless and it would cause more messy when you try to build other
ports
> that depend on either of it. Move everything in LOCALBASE, nothing more
> and nothing less, is much cleaner.
>

Consider the following scenario:

Happy owner of an (lets say) ATI card wants to use FreeBSD but he REALLY
needs
OpenGL. He decides to give XFree86 a try since he has heard on XOrg the
accelerated OpenGL doesn't work very well yet.

Happy owner installs some non-X packages and then installs XFree86. He
then
goes throught the work of setting up his build for building everything
with
XFree86. When a "working" XOrg release comes he'll have to massively
deinstall
packages including XFree86 (and his configuration files) just to check if
XOrg
now works.

Having it's own prefix, he still has to remove packages, but at least now
he
knows most of the conflicting packages will be in /usr/X11, and if there
is
"garbage" left he can still do rm -rf /usr/X11 without fear of removing
non-X
stuff.

If POLA is important here, I guess leaving X11BASE as it is now
(/usr/X11R6)
for XFree86 is the way to go. I'm not saying we should be able to run
different
Xservers in the same box (although that is not a bad idea altogether), but
that
we could, and should, alleviate the issues of people wanting to run
XFree86,
especially since it comes at no cost.


for the few people this would apply to they could always add something to
make.conf to install Xfree86 in /usr/X11R6 or xorg or what ever and have
both installed.


Pedro

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