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

[Randy.Dunlap]

Martin Schlemmer [c] wrote:
> 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 ...

This won't get fixed on lkml.
If you want to contribute in this area, try LSB/FHS etc.  & Please do.

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~Randy
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