Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:35:01 -0700 | | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | | Subject | Re: The naming wars continue... [u] |
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Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote: > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:21 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>Tonnerre wrote: >> >>>Salut, >>> >>>On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:43:54PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Having /usr/XnnRmm was a mistake in the first place. >>> >>> >>>BSD has /X11R6, whilst I'd agree that /opt/xorg is probably a lot more >>>appropriate. If you want I can take this discussion back to the X.Org >>>folks again, but I don't think it's actually going to change anything. >>> >> >>/opt/X (or /usr/X) is really what it probably should be. >> > > > Except if I am missing something, it is (or was) to be able to > distinguish between versions that broke protocol compatibility ... > so except if the protocol will never change again, it should really > stay as is, and the apps should actually just start to use /usr/bin/X11 > and /usr/lib/X11 that points to the latest or most stable instead of > the versioned directories ...
This won't get fixed on lkml. If you want to contribute in this area, try LSB/FHS etc. & Please do.
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