Martin,
I have only seen the removal of the X11/X11R6 convenience
symlinks when installing or reinstalling an OS release (and not from
simple Software Updates) for recent OS X releases.
Jack
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Martin Costabel <costa...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On 2/03/15 18:33, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> []
>> Moving this over to -devel since my comments are going to exceed the scope
>> of -beginners.
>>
>> Individual packages set up their own X11 build setups. Openmotif4
>> specifically asks for /usr/X11R6 in its ConfigureParams. I have a hard time
>> with the idea that X11/Xquartz is “broken” when it’s just missing
>> convenience symlinks, but I’m not exactly sure what the best way to deal
>> with the situation is.
>
> The XQuartz installer installs these symlinks in its postinst script.
> Apple's softwareupdate removes them. To me this looks like breakage. We
> don't know whether softwareupdate removes other parts of the XQuartz
> installation as well. XQuartz always recommended a reinstallation after
> every system upgrade.
>
> From the xquartz wiki <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki>
>
>> OS X Software/Security Updates and XQuartz (Leopard Only)
>>
>> OS X Software Updates have included some of the work done by this
>> project, but for various reasons, Apple cannot ship the latest and
>> greatest version offered by this site. Since our package clobbers
>> Apple's X11.app, their SU will clobber ours. Because of this, you may
>> experience conflicts after doing a Software Update from Apple. It is
>> suggested that you install the latest XQuartz release after
>> installing an update to OS X Leopard.
>
> The reference to Leopard means that this wiki is getting old (as wikis
> tend to do), but this is the latest advice from the xquartz site.
>
> --
> Martin
>
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