XFree86->xorg-x11 conversion

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Jesse Keating wrote:

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> On Sunday 21 March 2004 02:07, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > would it be feasible to just add a symlink, and use a generic name like
> > "/usr/X11/lib"?  surely that wouldn't cause a great deal of confusion,
> > would it?  at the moment, there's no directory named /usr/X11.
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> Does ld.conf break if the directory isn't there?  Think about systems that 
> don't have X, no /usr/X11.  In fact, the whole idea of splitting 
> everything out into /usr/X11Whatever is unclean.  IMHO it should all be in 
> /usr/lib with the rest of the system libraries.

i agree.  i was just addressing the specific issue that putting
/usr/X11R6/lib into ld.so.conf was too precise.  i find it hard to believe
that one or more missing directories listed in ld.so.conf would cause
anything to break.  that would represent kind of a fragile situation,
wouldn't it?

rday