Re: The naming wars continue...

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Followup to:  <20041025232654.GC30574@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > By author:    Tonnerre <tonnerre@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > > Yes - lets stick to fewer numbers.  They can count faster, instead
> > > > of having a long string of them.  I hope linux doesn't
> > > > end up like X. "X11R6.8.1" The "X" itself is a counter, although
> > > > it is understandable if it never increments to "Y".  But
> > > > that "11" doesn't change much, and then there are three more numbers. :-/
> > > X11  is the  name of  the  protocol: the  X Protocol,  version 11,  as
> > > released by the MIT. There was an X10.
> > 
> > There also were a W, and and X1, X2, ... X11.
> > 
> > However, there is a tendency for numbers to get stuck (witness Linux
> > 2.x).  In particular, X11R6 got encoded in many places including
> > pathnames for no good reason.  Under the pre-R6 naming schemes we'd
> > had R7 a long time ago.
> 
> How true.

> This should be removed.
> 
> cd /usr/lib; ln -s /usr/X11R6/* .
> 	or
> echo /usr/X11R6/lib >>/etc/ld.so.conf
> 
> are the better ways to handle this
> (I use first one)

/usr/{bin,lib/X11 have been version-free symlinks since ages...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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