Re: I'm confused... where do X11 bins go?
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> One reason that I have encuntered in the past was the need to
> maintain a working, older version of X (say, R6) while toying with a
> newer release (say, R7). Having separate directories in /usr allowed
> my to have both versions installed on the machine (this was a
> departmental server).
>
> This allowed some people to defer transition until all the
> dependent packages were ported over (there were indeed some
> that needed porting, espescially between R10 and R11). The
> adventurous souls just appended to the PATH variable, initially.
You could do much the same thing though, if X were in /usr/ and you put R7
in /usr/X11R7 temporarily. Just _prepend_ /usr/X11R7/bin/ to the path. Or
put R7 in /usr/local/.
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