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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