I was just reading the Introduction to Xorg-7 Setting up the Xorg Build Environment
section in BLFS 9.0 and, because I was thinking of putting all of Xorg stuff in its own hierarchy, noticed the passage that says: The common installation prefix for Xorg on Linux is /usr. There is no standard alternate prefix, nor is there any exception in the current revision of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard for Release 7 of the X Window System. Alan Coopersmith of Sun Microsystems, has recently stated "At Sun, we were using /usr/X11 and plan to stick with it." and I started wondering about the word 'recently".in there. Whilst I haven't tracked down the original quote yet, I did trace it back, in an LFS context, to Feb, 2009, via https://cblfs.clfs.org/index.php/Xorg7/Intro and also to a inux-sysadmin.com hosted version of BLFS 6.2.0, http://www.linux-sysadmin.com/blfs/view/6.2.0/x/xorg7.html that's from Feb 2007. Maybe the BLFS book could alter that "recent" in favour of an explanatory phrase as regards exactly when Alan Coopersmith made that statement. Kevin PS Personally, I favour /opt/X11 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
