Re: user programs in /usr/X11R6
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>From aqy6633 Tue Apr 6 16:15:23 1999
Subject: Re: user programs in /usr/X11R6
To: GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Peter S Galbraith)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 16:15:23 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <[🔎] 199904061822.OAA13914@mixing.qc.dfo.ca> from "Peter S Galbraith" at Apr 6, 99 02:22:02 pm
From: Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>
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> I put XWatch in /usr/X11R6/bin/xwatch because it has an
> app-defaults file:
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xwatch
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XWatch
>
> I placed it there because the xbuffy package did so as well.
> But since there is a link for /usr/lib/X11 I suppose that could
> have been:
>
> /usr/bin/xwatch
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XWatch
>
> Would that be better?
No, IMO. One of the arguments is that we could possibly have both X11R6
and, say X11R7 with all the appropriate binaries and libs going under
those two trees depending on what version of X they have been actually
linked with (or even written for). /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 symlinks
just point to the default tree.
Thanks,
Alex Y.
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