[I'm just catching up some mail, and will try to sum up some replies into 
this one mail]


On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
> : What packages "should" install in the projectroot and why ?
> : Always wondered, would be interested to know the rationale..
> 
> - Anything that uses app-defaults. [**]

Hm... from reading mails, I understand that this can be solved by setting 
the APPLRESDIR(sp?) environment variable, but what if a user hasn't set 
this? 

The appropriate X lib (I dont' have an idea which one that is) might be 
modified to not only search that one dir in X11BASE, but also one second 
dir in $LOCALBASE, to find the appdef files we (or pkgsrc) installs 
there. 

If the user still wants yet another dir, he'd have either to recompile X, 
or set the mentioned environment variable. 

(That's what Todd said - look for the appdef file in several PREFIXes)


> - Anything that installs an X-specific program library.

Um, why shouldn't we install 3rd party, X-related libs into $LOCALBASE?
Sure we 'd have to make sure that they are found there then, but I guess 
that would also be needed if installed in X11BASE, as the X config has to 
be told that there's noe that new libXfoo and includes, that should be 
used. 


> - Anything that uses imake (because Imake.tmpl defines ProjectRoot). [*]

I've seend the host.def(sp?) file that was listed by Todd here, and if 
that works, it should probably be integrated into our xsrc somehow, so it 
can be used to install pkgsrc apps into $LOCALBASE easily.

(Beware that that behaviour should be available only on request, so users 
that expect their X apps to really go into X11BASE don't get too 
surprised!) 

Someone should probably also do a full pkgsrc build with this on then...
(to test & iron out errors, _prior_ to committing things!)


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>