On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be > > dropped in favour for LOCALBASE. > > > > Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should > > we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro > > when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides > > that? > > > > A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-). > > It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put > in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded > knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway).
So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever possible from now on? Regards Marcus
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