[gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Donnie Berkholz]

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This is to anyone with packages that install stuff to /usr/X11R6:

Get out of there! Put your stuff in /usr/{bin,lib,etc.}. The only
exceptions at this time are the X implementation itself and very closely
tied things such as openmotif/lesstif.

If you earnestly believe your pet app has a valid reason to be in
/usr/X11R6, please justify your reasoning to me.

Quick list of possible suspects, based on what I have installed:
(Packages with a * are excepted from this, at least for now)

groff and baselayout install weird symlinks. I'd prefer to see X doing
these, if they're actually necessary. People without X have no reason
for those symlinks to exist.

quasar fonts # qpkg -fp /usr/X11R6 -nc
media-libs/nas
net-irc/bitchx
sys-apps/baselayout
sys-apps/groff
sys-apps/pcmcia-cs
*x11-base/x11-drm
*x11-base/xfree-drm
*x11-base/xorg-x11
*x11-libs/Xaw3d
*x11-libs/openmotif
x11-misc/ttmkfdir
x11-misc/xscreensaver

Thanks for your help,
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Donnie Berkholz
Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Paul de Vrieze]

xcin also lives (at least partly) in /usr/X11R6

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Monday 06 September 2004 13:01, lynn lai wrote:
> no, xcin puts files in /usr/lib/X11 and others. No files are in
> /usr/X11R6. My xcin version is 2.5.3_pre3.

Hmm. Then it was some other chinese input method. At my home machine I 
have some files live in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/???

I'll check later at home which package it was


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Matthias Liertzer]

> On Monday 06 September 2004 13:01, lynn lai wrote:
> > no, xcin puts files in /usr/lib/X11 and others. No files are in
> > /usr/X11R6. My xcin version is 2.5.3_pre3.

Well, if there wouldn't be this nasty symlink from /usr/lib/X11 to 
the /usr/X11R6 directory, this would be true:

# ls -l /usr/lib/X11
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 16 26. Aug 13:14 /usr/lib/X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11


Yours Matt


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 04 September 2004 02:57 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> sys-apps/baselayout

if you have issues with baselayout setting up the filesystem for X11 then file 
a bug

> sys-apps/groff

this looks like it's doing something wrong ... file a bug please
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Keep out of /usr/X11R6

[Donnie Berkholz]

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On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 19:30, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 04 September 2004 02:57 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > sys-apps/baselayout
> 
> if you have issues with baselayout setting up the filesystem for X11 then file 
> a bug

Thanks for the idea, I hadn't thought of that. </sarcasm>

Point is, I can't possibly know all the apps that put things there
without installing everything in the tree. I can only file bugs for what
I'm aware of. (Which I will, btw, once I finish packing and moving to
Oregon and have some spare time.)

Those of you pointing out additional programs doing this, please take
note of what Mike said and file a bug. If it would make things easier, I
or someone else could file a metabug for the whole issue.
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Gentoo Linux

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