/usr/X11R6 is gone but code trying to use it lives on. Today I noticed gnome-settings-daemon doing this every 2 seconds for an unknown reason that I have not yet tracked down: inotify_add_watch(20, "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11", IN_MODIFY|IN_ATTRIB|IN_CLOSE_WRITE|IN_MOVED_FROM|IN_MOVED_TO|IN_CREATE|IN_DELETE|IN_DELETE_SELF|IN_MOVE_SELF|IN_UNMOUNT|IN_ONLYDIR) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) That led to this: joey@gnu:/usr/lib>grep usr/X11R6 *.so.* Binary file libQtGui.so.4 matches Binary file libQtGui.so.4.5 matches Binary file libQtGui.so.4.5.3 matches Binary file libSDL-1.2.so.0 matches Binary file libSDL-1.2.so.0.11.2 matches Binary file libXaw.so.7 matches Binary file libXaw7.so.7 matches Binary file libXaw7.so.7.0.0 matches Binary file libXcursor.so.1 matches Binary file libXcursor.so.1.0.2 matches Binary file libgd.so.2 matches Binary file libgd.so.2.0.0 matches Binary file libgksu2.so.0 matches Binary file libgksu2.so.0.0.2 matches Binary file libjack.so.0 matches Binary file libjack.so.0.0.28 matches Binary file libjackserver.so.0 matches Binary file libjackserver.so.0.0.28 matches Binary file libkdeui.so.5 matches Binary file libkdeui.so.5.3.0 matches Binary file libnetpbm.so.10 matches Binary file libnetpbm.so.10.0 matches Binary file libqt-mt.so.3 matches Binary file libqt-mt.so.3.3 matches Binary file libqt-mt.so.3.3.8 matches Binary file librpm.so.0 matches Binary file librpm.so.0.0.0 matches And anywhere I look I can find more: root@gnu:/etc>git grep usr/X11R6 | wc -l 52 root@gnu:/usr/lib>grep usr/X11R6 -r . ./python2.5/site-packages/numpy/distutils/system_info.py:library_dirs = /usr/X11R6/lib [...] There are probably more references total than can be sensibly removed, but perhaps it would be worth adding some targeted lintian checks to warn about uses in places, like libraries, where it probably indicates the library is doing unnecessary work of including the directory in a search path? -- see shy jo
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