On 02/01/2012 04:05 AM, Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:26 +0000, Firerat wrote: >> On 1 February 2012 08:54, Dmitry Blum<dezm...@gmx.com> wrote: >>> X86 >>> LFS 6.8 >>> BLFS 6.3 >>> X`s prefix - /usr >> /usr? >> or /usr/X11 ? >> >> you are better off having X in its own subdir and not 'mixed in' with >> the rest of /usr > > Why do you say that? Unless it's part of your package management > strategy, putting everything in /usr is the least painful approach, > avoiding the usual problems with $PATH, $PKG_CONFIG_PATH, etc. > > Simon. >
Yes, using alternate paths is a PITA. While X isn't really horrible, I still do it for the book on my dev VMs, but on my daily system I use /usr. Perhaps I should make that more clear in the book? -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
