Subject: Re: Why are packages ever installed to /usr/X11R6?
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/21/2003 11:21:06
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:02:55PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Monday, January 20, 2003 at 17:48:23 (-0500), Eric Gillespie wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Why are packages ever installed to /usr/X11R6?
> >
> > If you had actually bothered to read any of my posts you wouldn't
> > keep telling me to use xpkgwedge because you would see that i do
> > know about it and have always used it.  My objection is to the
> > default behavior of cramming packages into /usr/X11R6 when that
> > is not their natural habitat.
> 
> If you had actually bothered to read any of my posts you'd realize that
> it is entirely natural and normal to put X11 add-on packages in
> X11PREFIX by default, right where they belong.

That is merely your opinion, and is not shared by everyone. For instance,
I do not share it.

Regards,
Alistair