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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 17 Aug 1995 13:33:14 +0200
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Thomas Graichen <graichen@titania.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>by the way - i think it would be a good idea to rethink the placement of all
>the X-ports-binaries - i think all stuff not directly related to the basic
>distribution (for instance fvwm etc.) belongs more into /usr/local than into
>/usr/X11R6 - because this way it is much easier to upgrade XFree86 - maybe
>someone else have another opinion
The main problem here is that the official Imakefile templates do not
provide for a differentiation between `system' and `user' application
directories. That would require all ports to modify their Imakefiles,
not a very enlightening idea...
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)