On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:19:01AM -0500, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wrote Doug Barton thusly... > > > > When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into /usr/local. > > Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE stuff > > altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local. > > > > In order to prepare for this change, and to fix as many ports as > > possible before it happens, the ports cluster has started running > > experimental builds with X11BASE set to something that is not > > /usr/X11R6 AND not /usr/local. So, you can easily reproduce this > > condition by doing the same thing yourself. > ... > > There are two ways to do this. Either way you choose, you have to > > put something like this in /etc/make.conf: X11BASE= > > /usr/local/xorg I chose that directory for my experiment, you can > > use whatever directory works for you that is NOT /usr/X11R6 or > > /usr/local. > > I have been using X11BASE=/misc/local/X (set in /etc/rc.conf; > /usr/X11R6 is symlinked to it) at least since Dec 2006 (Xorg 6.2). > So far I have not noticed any problems with 343-some ports (which do > not have a great deal of GNOME or KDE). > > Short of testing with full blown GNONE|KDE, is there anything else I > can try to test? Should I try without the /usr/X11R6 symlink?
Yes, because your current configuration is a NOP ;-) Kris
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