+system_x11 to bite the dust

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at macports.org
Wed Apr 29 12:52:59 PDT 2009


On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:43, Anders F Björklund wrote:
>
>> After this is done, I'm going to go through and start removing all  
>> the x11prefix references and workarounds in various ports.  If you  
>> are maintainer on a !openmaintainer port that has reference to $ 
>> {x11prefix}, speak now, or I consider your silence approval.
>
> I think ${x11prefix} was mostly to avoid hardcoding /usr/X11R6 (or / 
> usr/X11), but I gather you will be replacing it with ${prefix} now ?  
> (It was /usr/local on FreeBSD, but that doesn't really matter)

No, I won't be replacing it with anything.  It will be purged.   
XFree86/Portfile will still use it, but it will be self contained in  
that Portfile (ie not in base).  That will be used to install the pure  
darwin X11 server in a separate prefix (/usr/X11R6).




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