David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:15:23AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: >> David Nusinow wrote:
>>> Currently, it fakes FHS compliancy by creating various symlinks >>> (/usr/include/X11, /usr/bin/X11, /usr/lib/X11) to the appropriate >>> directories in /usr/X11R6. For 7.0, we need to make those symlinks >>> become actual directories. >> I thought that the idea instead was to move everything directly into >> /usr/include, /usr/bin, and /usr/lib. Why keep the X11 subdirectories? > Right. The everything that you'd expect to go in to /usr/bin and > /usr/lib will install there, at least as far as Xorg goes. An example of > that is that the new xterm package installs to /usr/bin rather than > /usr/X11R6/bin. I haven't finished the packaging of everything, but it > seems that some of the header files are put in to differenct dirs of > /usr/include. I'll investigate the reasoning for this further. As for > /usr/lib/X11, data files like fonts currently go in there. I understand why /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 would stay; after all, those are perfectly reasonable names for what they are currently symlinks to. I don't understand why /usr/bin/X11 wouldn't go away completely, at least for the programs that come with X. Maybe that's the plan and the above is just a bit confusing since all three of those directories aren't treated quite the same way? >> What about all the packages that you don't control that also still put >> things in /usr/X11R6? Recall that policy allows this for anything still >> using Imake, as well as mandating it for any package containing X >> fonts. > Right, they're still allowed to as far as I'm concerned. It's basically > that Xorg is giving up claim on that directory in a sense. I don't know > about the fonts issue given the above, I'll look in to that. Does upstream imake still dump everything into /usr/X11R6 or has it too been modified to use a more conventional installation structure? (Or is imake going away completely?) I'd love it if imake itself just used a better directory layout, since it's going to be a *long* time before everything that currently uses imake switches to some other build system (even if that's been in progress for years). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
