X11 in Macports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 23:09, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Oh and one more issue I just remembered... I've seen quite a few  
> ports do:
>
> prefix ${x11prefix}
>
> This seems to be a clear violation of the "nothing in /usr"  
> policy... and as someone who feels some amount of ownership of /usr/ 
> X11, I don't want to see it get potentially thrashed...
>
> Am I correct in assuming that this is flat out wrong and should be  
> reverted back to installing into the macports dstroot?  Or was  
> there some reason for doing this that I'm not seeing?

I had assumed that the ports that installed into ${x11prefix} had  
some need to do so. I had not actually tried to use any of that  
software. If it works fine in ${prefix} then absolutely it should go  
there instead.