Re: /usr/X11R6 [a suggestion]

1997-09-24 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
if we give /usr/X11R6 it's own hirarchy, why don't we do everything to there ? and where should we stop ? examples : - /var knows no X11R6 - we have our doc files in /usr/doc, not in /usr/X11R6/doc new fhs draft will make some things different : /usr/share takes many files : doc, man, locale

Re: /usr/X11R6 [a suggestion]

1997-09-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > Wait. Three cases: [... snip ...] > It makes sense to me. Then if you are not running X, you can remove > /usr/X11R6/bin from your PATH. Zactly. Keeps your path (and in the case of tcsh or bash, your hashed-list-of-commands-in-path) from becom

Re: /usr/X11R6 [a suggestion]

1997-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Will Lowe wrote: > Wait. Three cases: > > 1) Something that runs *without* X (eg. on console) > goes in /usr/bin > 2) Something that runs *only* in X (eg. Gimp, KDE, rxvt) > goes in /usr/X11* > 3) a) Something that works either way (Xemacs, clisp) but is only *one* > binary (

Re: /usr/X11R6 [a suggestion]

1997-09-23 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > 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. Wait. Thr