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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