Request for volunteers to help track down packages that use /usr/X11R6

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at redhat.com
Wed Aug 31 04:11:50 UTC 2005


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:40:38PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> What's changing specifically:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> X.Org X11 will no longer use the /usr/X11R6 directory hierarchy
> at all.  It uses /usr, and installs files where you'd expect
> them to be found within that heirarchy more or less (although
> it is a bit buggy in this regard currently, that'll be fixed
> prior to X11R7's final release).  The libraries, binaries,
> fonts, config files, data files - everything is moving.

Yay!

Question...  when this switchover happens, will X be packaged such that it is
possible to set up a /usr/X11R6-free x11-xorg setup?

That would greatly aid developers, to see what major breakage occurs when the
x11-org-compat-symlinks package is omitted.

	Jeff






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