Doug Barton wrote: > Florent Thoumie wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >> >>> Currently we have 2 locations for files installed by ports. LOCALBASE >>> (which defaults to /usr/local) and X11BASE (which defaults to >>> /usr/X11R6). When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into >>> /usr/local. >> >> I don't know where you guys read that. > > Well, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was the > plan?
Well, unless somebody with a hat tells me to do it, I definitely won't :-) >>> Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE >>> stuff altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local. >> >> This should happen before we move X.org to LOCALBASE. > > Cool, I wasn't sure about the ordering on that, but one virtue of > installing xorg 7 into LOCALBASE would be that you don't have to move > all the current X11BASE ports all at once, since most things would just > work. But you end up with real X11 stuff in LOCALBASE and some other stuff in X11BASE while everything is being moved. This is a bit confusing. Anyway, we've have X11 in X11BASE for quite a few years now, it can wait two months before we move it :-) > For example, when I installed my new laptop I put "X11BASE=/usr/local" > in /etc/make.conf, and everything worked fine, including a bunch of the > ports that were broken when kris did his recent /usr/xorg run. I did the same on all my machine, had only a couple of mtree problems, otherwise it was just fine. > In any case, none of this is material to the OP's question. Fixing the > ports now to install into a non-standard base will make them PREFIX > clean down the road no matter where PREFIX happens to be. :) True enough, once we fixed all ports to be PREFIX-clean and X11BASE-clean, X.org move will just be a matter of removing one line in bsd.xorg.mk and bumping PORTREVISIONs. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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