xorg 7.x and non-standard X11BASE

[Doug Barton]

Florent Thoumie wrote:
> Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> Currently we have 2 locations for files installed by ports. LOCALBASE
>> (which defaults to /usr/local) and X11BASE (which defaults to
>> /usr/X11R6). When xorg 7 is imported, it will be installing into
>> /usr/local.
> 
> I don't know where you guys read that.

Well, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was the 
plan?

>> Shortly thereafter the plan is to do away with the X11BASE
>> stuff altogether, and have all ports install into /usr/local.
> 
> This should happen before we move X.org to LOCALBASE.

Cool, I wasn't sure about the ordering on that, but one virtue of 
installing xorg 7 into LOCALBASE would be that you don't have to move 
all the current X11BASE ports all at once, since most things would 
just work.

For example, when I installed my new laptop I put "X11BASE=/usr/local" 
in /etc/make.conf, and everything worked fine, including a bunch of 
the ports that were broken when kris did his recent /usr/xorg run.

In any case, none of this is material to the OP's question. Fixing the 
ports now to install into a non-standard base will make them PREFIX 
clean down the road no matter where PREFIX happens to be. :)

hth,

Doug

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