David Nusinow wrote: > As far as I understand it, this is simply grandfathered in. I'm not that up > on the FHS details though, so I may be wrong. Remember also that this isn't > X11R6 any more, but X11R7.
Ok, /usr/X11R7 would probably violate either the spirit or the letter of the FHS (probably not both :-), so I see why you want to move away from it, it's just the issue of converting these symlinks to directories that concerns me. > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and /usr/lib > will install there, at least as far as Xorg goes. An example of that is > that the new xterm package installs to /usr/bin rather than /usr/X11R6/bin. > I haven't finished the packaging of everything, but it seems that some of > the header files are put in to differenct dirs of /usr/include. I'll > investigate the reasoning for this further. As for /usr/lib/X11, data files > like fonts currently go in there. /usr/include/X11 makes some sense, it was mostly /usr/bin/X11 that I didn't see the point of. However, even /usr/include/X11 could potentially cause a problem, if a third party package currently installs headers in /usr/X11R6/include/foo and xorg updates /usr/include/X11 to be a directory rather than a symlink, then #include <X11/foo> will stop working. Switching any of these directories from symlinks to real directories seems likely to require some coordination beyond xorg. > > What about all the packages that you don't control that also still put > > things in /usr/X11R6? Recall that policy allows this for anything still > > using Imake, as well as mandating it for any package containing X fonts. > > Right, they're still allowed to as far as I'm concerned. It's basically > that Xorg is giving up claim on that directory in a sense. I don't know > about the fonts issue given the above, I'll look in to that. The fonts directory issue can be fixed in policy easily enough, although again if a new version of X looks for fonts in /usr/lib/X11 and some third party packages install them in /usr/X11R6/lib, when the former directory stops being a symlink, those fonts won't be found. Here's a maintainer-sorted list of packages that install files in /usr/X11R6: MJ Ray (Debian) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wily Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xmaddressbook Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xfonts-jmk Juan Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ipsc Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xfonts-ay Ryuichi Arafune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> toolbar-fancy Hakan Ardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xfaces Enrique Robledo Arnuncio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mctools-lite Lars Bahner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> xcal Miros/law L. 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