On Friday 22 April 2005 20:21, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:01:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > You should forward this information to the freebsd-ports list. I'm sure > > they'd like to know this, because it's abnormal design. The conf file > > *should* be in /usr/local/etc and there *should* be a pkg-message file > > that tells the installer what to do post-install. > > At least a symlink to /usr/local/etc, and the post-install note. > This brings up the qauestion of the Powers-that-Be creating > symlinks to /etc/local (as a min) and /etc/X11R6. (Should *ANY* > non-system GUI have its conf in /etc/X11R6/etc? ... [*mumble*]) > > gary >
No, and in fact it would be better if /usr/X11R6 were a hard link to /usr/local, but this never happened. The /usr/X11R6 came into life because of X IIRC and then got adapted by some X apps and then by gnome. So now we're stuck with two "3rd party software" trees/prefixes. It's indeed bad IMHO, but I'm sure that everytime there were also good reasons to keep the /usr/X11R6 (for one thing: it's a dist). My EUR 0.02, Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
