Subject: Re: Xfm in Pkgsrc
To: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/12/2005 23:24:10
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:35:04AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I think it would be nice to have this directory added to the default
> search path in the X11 implementation, but I know I don't understand
> all the issues involved.
You are not alone (and others have said so before). IMHO this is a major
flaw in the xpkgwedge concept. We should at least patch startx, xdm, gdm
and kdm to set this variable if it is not in the environment - but then
I don't understand most of the issues involved either.
Martin