From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ENAUf-0005of-KC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:43:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95EXqWk020781; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:33:52 GMT Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95ESilP025560 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 14:28:45 GMT Received: (qmail 75530 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2005 14:36:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.100?) (richard?j?fish@68.230.97.177 with plain) by smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Oct 2005 14:36:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4343E50E.1070304@asmallpond.org> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:37:02 -0700 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/.... References: <434322CD.6060101@gmx.at> <20051005144651.0184560e.hilse@web.de> <4343D161.70409@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <4343D161.70409@planet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 51df8f88-1867-48f8-849a-069e8396da55 X-Archives-Hash: 8cc9ca97f89e175f72314dd3bb45f821 Holly Bostick wrote: >Hans-Werner Hilse schreef: > > >>Hi, >> >>On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200 >>Matthias Langer wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - >>>leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this >>>message ... >>> >>> >>Does it really contain _itself_? I think this would be wrong. Instead, >>it should point to /usr, i.e. the directory containing the sym link. >>Reading the subject of your mail, I guess that's the case for you, too. >>But above you said otherwise ("pointing to itself")... >> >> > >On my box, the X11R6 symlink in /usr points to /usr (recursive, thus, >like the 'boot' symlink in /boot). > > Interesting. On mine, /usr/X11R6 is a directory, that contains a symlink /usr/X11R6/X11R6 which points to /usr. I suspect this is probably the same as the OP. I guess I need to take a close look at baselayout to see how I got into this mess. Cheers, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list