Moving X11 install into their own subdirectory

[Blair Zajac]

Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
> On Mar 13, 2009, at 17:37, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I haven't followed closely the work on getting X11 into the MacPorts, 
>> but I was installing some new ports today and the xorg-libice port 
>> conflicts with an existing port, ice-cpp, on the libIce.dylib.  
>> Unfortunately, they have different capitalization, ice-cpp has 
>> libIce.dylib and xorg-libice has libICE.dylib.
>>
>> Given precedence of an existing port and following the Linux standard, 
>> it seems moving the xorg-* ports into $prefix/X11 or $prefix/X11R6 
>> would be a good thing to do.
> 
> 1) Use a case sensitive FS.
> 
> 2) The Linux "standard" is actually placing these libs in ${prefix}.  I 
> don't think many distros keep around /usr/X11 anymore unless it's a 
> symlink to /usr...

The three I have, Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Centos 4 and 5, has /usr/X11R6 and its 
subdirectories as normal directories, not symlinks.

Blair