Re: issue 01 : /usr/X11R6
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> policy sais nothing. fsstnd and fhs draft are not exact.
> current decission of our policy manager is to place all x11 programs and
> their files in /usr/X11R6.
>
> my opinion : /usr/X11* exists for historic reasons. the x11 system (in
> our case xfree86) and related files (e.g. window manager) should go into
> /usr/X11R6. but i see no need to place everything in there, only because
> it needs x11.
>
> the only reason to place a file in /usr/X11R6 is
> "we always did it this way". but we never placed kde in that diretory,
> and i dont see why we should. it doesnt use xresource and it also doesnt
> use many other features, and has its own way (e.g. menu system, mime
> system ...).
As stated earlier, I believe binaries that REQUIRE X to run should be in
/usr/X11R6/bin, since I can then yank that from my path if I'm not in X.
If it only is linked to the X libs, but doesn't require it (emacs,
xemacs), then stick it in /usr/bin.
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