Request for volunteers to help track down packages that use /usr/X11R6
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Wed Aug 31 07:17:31 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 23:40 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 3) If you can personally think of any application or compat
> problems that might occur when the changeover is made,
> please report them to me via email in advance, so we can
> try to find a solution sooner than later.
Probably 100s of packages have some form of /usr/X*/{lib|lib64|include}
or similar hard-coded into configure scripts, build scripts, Makefiles
and the like.
> as there
> is likely to be a fair amount of package churn, so we'd
> like to get things in order far far in advance of
> FC5test1.
Well, I would expect you will not be able to avoid having to provide a
compatibility package for at least the next couple of years.
Ralf
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