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Re: X11R6 runtime compat. for fresh -current installation



On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 04:41:39PM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> [Please note the reply-to which is set to current-users and tech-x11]
> 
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:45:10PM +0100, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:42:52PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> > > Quentin Garnier said;
> > >
> > >> Not sure I understand the need.  Files under /usr/X11R6 are not removed
> > >> by postinstall, so if you update, they stay there.
> > >
> > > Is it just ok to untar "old" X11R6 sets fetched from somewhere into 
> > > -current
> > > which has been installed in a blank disk?
> > 
> > Yeah.  A few weeks ago I'd have proposed to make X11R6 a symlink to
> > X11R7 but now that all lib majors have been bumped...
> 
> IMHO a symlink from /usr/X11 to /usr/X11R7 wouldn't be a bad thing.

The critical part of my point (which you seem to have completely missed)
was after the word "symlink", Bernd.

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Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
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