On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:19:05PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > On 10/19/06 15:14, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:55:16PM +0200, Marcus von Appen wrote: > >>On, Thu Oct 19, 2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> > >>>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). > >>So what was the announcement about then? Was the X11BASE vs. LOCALBASE > >>section within it just a generalization of the GNOME changes and X11BASE > >>will be kept? Or should we maintainers switch to LOCALBASE whenever > >>possible from now on? > > > >It wasn't an "announcement", it was a description of future plans. I > >don't know who is actively working on it. > > But /usr/ports/UPDATING reads: > 20061014: > AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users > AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GNOME has been updated to 2.16. All GTK+2 and GNOME components have > been moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local). To > upgrade your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need > to use either sysutils/portupgrade or sysutils/portmaster. To use > portmaster, make sure you have least 1.9 version to have the > upgrade success.
Right, as it says GNOME moved to LOCALBASE but everything else in X11BASE is still there. kris
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