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Re: Location of X executables in the file system.



On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 07:07:08AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> It turned out that xcircuit upstream author has changed his Makefile
> so that now the executable is installed in /usr/bin/ rather then in
> /usr/X11R6/bin/ as before.
> Since I believe that most X applications are installed in /usr/X11R6/bin/
> I wonder if this is a matter of FHS and/or policy or that this is quite
> minor and should not deserve more consideration.

You should do what the upstream author does.

A really strict reading of the FHS implies that /usr/X11R6 is for the X
Window System *itself*, not for things which might use it.

In other words, using /usr/X11R6/bin might be wrong.  Using /usr/bin
definitely is not wrong.  So I'd play it safe and use /usr/bin.

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