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Re: X11R6 runtime compat. for fresh -current installation



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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.

Bernd



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