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From: graichen@titania.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: The Future of FreeBSD...
Date: 16 Aug 1995 18:52:04 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Ruslan Belkin (rus@monolit.kiev.ua) wrote:
: I think, that providing some pre-configured, plug-and-play XFree distribution
: (instead of fresh one) even with fvwm, xfm and with BSD-daemon logo will
: simple and good start for bringing FreeBSD to Windoze-nized user.
... but i think the "clean" XFree86 binary tree should also be available -
because not all FreeBSD users are "Windoze-nized" and have their own .fvwmrc
and thus don't need the overhead you may get from all that - but this as an
_option_ is a good idea i think
one point for my switch from linux to FreeBSD was it's relatively clear
filesystemheirarchy - a _real_ /usr/local not that /usr/bin & /usr/local mix
from for instance slackware which made it very hard to maintain the same local
binaries for different platforms (here /usr/local ther /usr etc.) - thus i
think the basic tree should stay relatively small and "clean" in this way -
such a setup as package i _may_ install is ok
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
t
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