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> > > However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux
> > > 2.x). In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including
> > > pathnames for no good reason. Under the pre-R6 naming schemes we'd
> > > had R7 a long time ago.
> >
> > How true.
>
> > This should be removed.
> >
> > cd /usr/lib; ln -s /usr/X11R6/* .
> > or
> > echo /usr/X11R6/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf
> >
> > are the better ways to handle this
> > (I use first one)
>
> /usr/{bin,lib/X11 have been version-free symlinks since ages...

Why X server special cased at all?

Having /usr/XnnRmm was a mistake in the first place.
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vda

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