Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/11/07 14:59 CST: > > >> I'll work on writing the paragraph unless somebody beats me to it. >> > > Thinking about it more, what about the paragraph we are already talking > about, and for each page that we're now providing some X11R6 hack we put > in a xinclude statement to a blanket file and comment out all the hacks. > > The blanket file would say something to the effect of: > > This package requires the X11R6 compat symlink created at the beginning > of the X installation (provide xref link right to it) if your X is > installed in any location other than /usr/X11R6. > > I'm not sure if at the very end of it, we can add "or /usr". Seems > most of the scripts looking for the X11R6 also fall back to /usr, but > I can't say for sure. It would be nice if that was the case. > > For most, yes, but there are a couple, or at least there were around the time of the first release, that didn't look in /usr. In fact, IIRC there were a couple that had /usr/X11R6 in the source code. Anyway, I do like that better. Those interested can look at the XML sources to see exactly what we did before and none of those previous 'workarounds' are lost.
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