[gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Matthias Langer]

By accident i recognized that the link /usr/X11R6/ conatains itself - 
leading to an infinite recursion, as hinted in the subject of this 
message ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that this 
behavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't change 
after removing the symlink and reemerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4.

Any comments, or should i file a bug ?
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Daniel Faulknor]

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I have noticed the same thing, and no removin the symlink or reemerging xorg
doesnt seem to work either
 Daniel Faulknor

 On 10/5/05, Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> 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 ... I don't think that this is a problem, but i doubt that this
> behavour is intended. Maybe i should mention that this doesn't change
> after removing the symlink and reemerging xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4.
>
> Any comments, or should i file a bug ?
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 02:48 schrieb ext Matthias Langer:

> ..., but i doubt that this behavour is intended.

Yes, it is.

Bye...

	Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[darren kirby]

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quoth the Dirk Heinrichs:
> Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 02:48 schrieb ext Matthias Langer:
> > ..., but i doubt that this behavour is intended.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> Bye...
>
> 	Dirk

Well, thanks for that thorough explanation...

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 09:48 schrieb ext darren kirby:
> quoth the Dirk Heinrichs:
> > Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2005 02:48 schrieb ext Matthias Langer:
> > > ..., but i doubt that this behavour is intended.
> >
> > Yes, it is.
>
> Well, thanks for that thorough explanation...

You're welcome :-)

This post [1] to gentoo-dev has it all: Having a separate directory for X 
(/usr/X11R6) is not needed and also not FHS compliant (although FHS 
explicitely lists it as an exception). Major distribution vendors and Xorg 
project itself are migrating away from this.

I'd guess the link is still there for backward compatibility and will be 
removed at some point in the future, when all packages which insist on 
installing into /usr/X11R6 are fixed.

HTH...

	Dirk

[1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/25026
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200
Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> 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")...

It's due to the fact that X11 is distro-managed and as such there's
little reason to keep it in an extra location.

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Holly Bostick]

Hans-Werner Hilse schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200
> Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> 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).

FYI.

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Richard Fish]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>Hans-Werner Hilse schreef:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200
>>Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> 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

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Richard Fish]

Richard Fish wrote:

> 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.


Nevermind, I take that back.  I got thrown by the output of "ls -ld 
/usr/X11R6/".  I should not have had the trailing slash on that...

carcharias ~ # ls -ld /usr/X11R6
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 6 Sep 26 21:17 /usr/X11R6 -> ../usr

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/X11R6/....

[Matthias Langer]

Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:48:13 +0200
>Matthias Langer <mlangc@gmx.at> 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")...
>  
>
Well you are right:
ls -l in /usr:
...
X11R6 -> ../usr
...
Matthias

>It's due to the fact that X11 is distro-managed and as such there's
>little reason to keep it in an extra location.
>
>-hwh
>  
>

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