On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 21:43 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Dejan Lesjak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] as far as X.org 7 ports themselves go, they right now already > > happily build and install under /usr/X11R6 prefix [...] > > This makes no sense at all, since X.org is (by definition) X11R7. > > BTW, I am constantly amazed at FreeBSD ports maintainers' continued > insistence that X, Y or Z "can't be done" when in fact everybody else > is already doing it, and FreeBSD is the odd one out with innumberable > hacks and tweaks to make it work "our way" instead of the way > everybody else does it. This debate is a perfect example of this: the > rest of the world already installs everything (X, KDE, Gnome...) under > a single prefix - usually /usr - yet FreeBSD port maintainers insist > that it can't possibly be done.
Nobody says it can't be done. The fact we've had two different prefixes for such a long time just created possible collisions when it comes to merging them. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer
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