Re: Xorg version number change
Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith-UdXhSnd/[email protected]>
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Roland Mainz wrote: >>>BTW: Since a while Solaris has a link /usr/X/ which points to the That's actually there for compliance with the SysV ABI. Sun's packages of Xorg for Solaris deliver into /usr/X11 (no R6, since R7 appears to be around the corner and we saw no reason to suffer migration pain when moving to a new version, though /usr/X11R6 is a symlink to /usr/X11 to make it easier for scripts written to that on other OS'es). If there's ever a X12 it will likely be different enough that a different directory is a good idea - but we can burn that bridge when we come to it. > Really... both _should_ live in /usr/gnome/ like all good Unix citizen. Unfortunately, the FHS part of the LSB prohibits that. (I believe people from Sun's GNOME team tried to argue against that and lost.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering