From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from coat.coat.com (coat.coat.com [164.153.10.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3QGgJHV018962 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:42:20 GMT Received: from rutrow.coat.com (IDENT:U2FsdGVkX1+nK+c3KvYfCjSESOeVdGDqRaOzpdzCFCk@rutrow.coat.com [192.168.100.80]) by coat.coat.com (8.12.9+Sun/8.12.10/bcf03-virt) with ESMTP id j3QGgPPD027504 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:42:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:41:21 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: How deprecated is /usr/X11R6? In-Reply-To: <426E6AB7.8010007@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <20050426181101.309eac62@eusebe> <426E6AB7.8010007@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: c675401c-ca3b-49af-bb86-9e47ba2c856b X-Archives-Hash: 71c30a3bd625ca3e88232decdaa308fa 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list