Re: The naming wars continue... [u]

[Martin Schlemmer [c]]

On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:21 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Tonnerre wrote:
> > Salut,
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:43:54PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > 
> >>Having /usr/XnnRmm was a mistake in the first place.
> > 
> > 
> > BSD has /X11R6, whilst I'd agree that /opt/xorg is probably a lot more
> > appropriate. If you want I can  take this discussion back to the X.Org
> > folks again, but I don't think it's actually going to change anything.
> > 
> 
> /opt/X (or /usr/X) is really what it probably should be.
> 

Except if I am missing something, it is (or was) to be able to
distinguish between versions that broke protocol compatibility ...
so except if the protocol will never change again, it should really
stay as is, and the apps should actually just start to use /usr/bin/X11
and /usr/lib/X11 that points to the latest or most stable instead of
the versioned directories ...


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Martin Schlemmer

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