X11 in Macports

[Joshua Root]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I say move them to ${prefix}, and if they don't work there, fix
them so they do.

- Josh