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To: amiga-x@netbsd.org
Xref: endicor.com netbsd.sys.amiga.x11:16
Newsgroups: netbsd.sys.amiga.x11
From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)
Subject: Re: Unreasonable X probs
Organization: Endicor Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
Sender: owner-amiga-x@netbsd.org
In article <9410121310.AA14440@crunch>,
Markus Landgraf <landgraf@crunch.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> >>>>> "mikeb" == mikeb <mikeb@snow.datametrics.com> writes:
> mikeb> Actually, the default for X11R6 is /usr/X11R6 for most
> mikeb> configurations, don't know why it was changed for
> mikeb> NetBSD-amiga, probably someone didn't make their /usr
> mikeb> partition big enough.
>
> No, it was a political decision, I think. In this point of view X11 is
> a package and belongs to the directory where all the packages
> reside. This is /opt for SVR4 unices and /usr/local for BSDs.
> Furthermore I have to correct myself. AIX puts X11 into /usr/lpp/X11,
> so this seems to be a package for AIX, this means it seems to be ok
> for NetBSD when X11 resides in /usr/local/X11R?.
If all packages go in /usr/local, then X should be in /usr/local, not
/usr/local/X11R?, right? At any rate, I always put X in /usr/X11R? on
every machine, which can be a link to the real location if neccesary.
--
Ty Sarna "Shut up, I'm having a rhetorical conversation!"
tsarna@endicor.com -Max, _The Producers_