Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262630AbUJ0Xcc (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:32:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbUJ0UwE (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:52:04 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:31381 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262724AbUJ0Uqd (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:46:33 -0400 Message-ID: <41800675.5090806@osdl.org> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:35:01 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Schlemmer CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Tonnerre , Denis Vlasenko , Geert Uytterhoeven , Linux Kernel Development , Erik Andersen , uclibc@uclibc.org Subject: Re: The naming wars continue... [u] References: <200410261032.34133.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <200410261442.11618.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <20041026203137.GB10119@thundrix.ch> <417F2251.7010404@zytor.com> <1098908018.12420.81.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1098908018.12420.81.camel@nosferatu.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1301 Lines: 39 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. -- ~Randy - 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/