Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261224AbUJZLob (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:44:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261704AbUJZLob (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:44:31 -0400 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:57355 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261224AbUJZLo1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Oct 2004 07:44:27 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:43:54 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Development , Erik Andersen , uclibc@uclibc.org References: <200410261032.34133.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410261442.11618.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 870 Lines: 29 > > > 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... Why X server special cased at all? Having /usr/XnnRmm was a mistake in the first place. -- vda - 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/