X11 in Macports

[Jeremy Huddleston]

On Nov 22, 2008, at 22:54, Joshua Root wrote:

> 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.

Ok, I'll atleast start working on that front while we debate the fate  
of dependencies.