X11 in Macports

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Sun Nov 23 10:35:49 PST 2008


On Nov 23, 2008, at 03:22, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Think it was a technical limitation, with some things not working  
> outside ${x11prefix}...

Well then it's a bug in the build system or something because it  
should work fine wherever you install it (and if it doesn't, that's a  
bug)

> Something like how .app bundles don't work fully outside an / 
> Applications location or so.

Uhm... .app bundles should work outside /Applications



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