On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> according to the status report sent around today, X11BASE should be
> dropped in favour for LOCALBASE.
> 
> Is there an actual schedule until when this should happen and how should
> we deal with our current ports now? Just remove the USE_X_PREFIX macro
> when we submit new PRs for (our) existing ports or anything besides
> that? 
> 
> A further explanation why that move shall happen would be great, too :-).

It can only possibly happen after a team of interested people have put
in the work to fix the several thousand ports that have hard-coded
knowledge of /usr/X11R6 (i.e. which do not respect X11BASE anyway).

Kris

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