On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:41:28PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> So
> before /usr/{lib,include}/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/{lib,include}
> after /usr/{lib,include}/X11 <- /usr/X11R6/{lib,include}
> and
> before /usr/bin/X11 -> /usr/X11R6/bin (real dir)
> after /usr/bin/X11 -> .. /usr/X11R6/bin -> /usr/bin (by some name)
>
> That's fine and there are ways of doing these things.
> Are there any other difficulties etc. ?
Only the sheer number of packages that ignored policy, FHS, etc, and
installed a bunch of crap into /usr/X11R6. Some of them are external
(e.g. Opera).
A lot of people have hardcoded paths into /usr/X11R6. Sucks.
> I'm not sure I understand why it is necessary to adjust old systems to
> conform to the new standard wrt {lib,include}. Why can't they just be
> left with the symlinks pointing to where new systems have directories
> and vice versa ?
I dind't bother transitioning /usr/X11R6 for Ubuntu, I just left it
hanging.
> /usr/bin/X11 is a bit tricky. I think the right answer is to have
> some preinst move all of the binaries from /usr/bin/X11 to /usr/bin
> and then sort out the links but this should be done with care. There
> should be no need for any Conflicts.
Happily mangling binaries from other packages? Ugh.
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