Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262227AbUJZLN2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:13:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262229AbUJZLN2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:13:28 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:46286 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262227AbUJZLMn (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:12:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:12:03 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Denis Vlasenko cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Development , Erik Andersen , uclibc@uclibc.org Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... In-Reply-To: <200410261032.34133.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Message-ID: References: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> <200410261032.34133.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1892 Lines: 49 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 09:37, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Followup to: <20041025232654.GC30574@thundrix.ch> > > By author: Tonnerre > > 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 -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/