XFree86->xorg-x11 conversion

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Jesse Keating wrote:

>> would it be feasible to just add a symlink, and use a generic name like
>> "/usr/X11/lib"?  surely that wouldn't cause a great deal of confusion,
>> would it?  at the moment, there's no directory named /usr/X11.
>
>Does ld.conf break if the directory isn't there?  Think about systems that 
>don't have X, no /usr/X11.  In fact, the whole idea of splitting 
>everything out into /usr/X11Whatever is unclean.  IMHO it should all be in 
>/usr/lib with the rest of the system libraries.

Indeed, and many others feel this way upstream also.  There will 
likely be a transition from using /usr/X11R6 to just using /usr 
in the next year or so from upstream.  Some things are already 
using it.


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Mike A. Harris       ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - X.org X11 maintainer - Red Hat