[gentoo-dev] How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[gentoo-dev] How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

Hi,

Currently, whereas the stable (but on arm) xorg-x11 installs in
"/usr", there are still a lot of other ebuilds using the old
"/usr/X11R6" prefix. Some commands to find them:
# grep -l /usr/X11R6 /usr/lib/*.la
# find /var/db/pkg/ -mindepth 2 -type d -exec grep -q /usr/X11R6 \
{}/CONTENTS \; -printf '%P\n'

Sure, this packages work just fine thanks to the "/usr/X11R6 ->
../usr" symlink, so there is no real issue with that. But i was
wondering whether the long term goal is to get ride of this
symlink, and if so, whether it was time to start reporting/fixing
them. In short, would enhancement bugreports about them be ok or
invalid? 

Thanks,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> Sure, this packages work just fine thanks to the "/usr/X11R6 ->
> ../usr" symlink, so there is no real issue with that. But i was
> wondering whether the long term goal is to get ride of this
> symlink, and if so, whether it was time to start reporting/fixing
> them. In short, would enhancement bugreports about them be ok or
> invalid? 

In my view, they would be great. Unfortunately I don't maintain
everything that installs to /usr/X11R6.

Some maintainers may not particularly care about this, so supplying
patches with your bugs could help.

Thanks,
Donnie
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[gentoo-dev] Re: How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote:

> Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
>> Sure, this packages work just fine thanks to the "/usr/X11R6 ->
>> ../usr" symlink, so there is no real issue with that. But i was
>> wondering whether the long term goal is to get ride of this
>> symlink, and if so, whether it was time to start reporting/fixing
>> them. In short, would enhancement bugreports about them be ok or
>> invalid?
>
> In my view, they would be great. Unfortunately I don't maintain
> everything that installs to /usr/X11R6.
>
> Some maintainers may not particularly care about this, so supplying
> patches with your bugs could help.

I'm going to say, "patches with your bugs are required".  We don't need a
bunch of bugs about this since it's pretty obvious when packages install
things there.

Michael Sterrett
   -Mr. Bones.-
mr_bones_@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:41:21 -0400 (EDT)
"Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@coat.com> wrote:

> I'm going to say, "patches with your bugs are required". 

Yep, sure, that was not in my intention to ask for such cosmetic
changes without providing the patches.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] How deprecated is /usr/X11R6?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 12:11 pm, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> Sure, this packages work just fine thanks to the "/usr/X11R6 ->
> ../usr" symlink, so there is no real issue with that. But i was
> wondering whether the long term goal is to get ride of this
> symlink, and if so, whether it was time to start reporting/fixing
> them. In short, would enhancement bugreports about them be ok or
> invalid?

just in case ... dont bother reporting on things that work with 
both /usr/X11R6 and /usr ...
-mike
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