[indiana-discuss] [xwin-discuss] Time to move X out of /usr/X11 ?

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Alan
Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> I hate to ask, having just spent nearly 10 years trying to get X moved
> from /usr/openwin to /usr/X11, and finally being almost finished with
> that, but is it time to stop segregating X11 and move to /usr?
>
[...]>

   I agree. It makes OpenSolaris less weirder to a wider population and
   /usr/X11 can be left as a symlink to /usr.

> If we're going to do this, the ideal time to do so is in the next 6 months,
> so it's baked in before Solaris.Next, which is already a Major release in our
> compatibility taxonomy due to the change of default filesystem (zfs) and
> packaging system (IPS) - we might even be able to do it as part of transitioning
> our builds to generate IPS packages, since we'll be creating new package
> manifests for those, and could just create them from the start to deliver
> to /usr/bin, /usr/lib, etal.
>

  The package generation step should be kept sufficiently separate,
  as it is today, to easily plug-in other package mechanisms.

> Is there any strong reason we should be considering against doing this?
>

  Can't think of any.

Regards,
Moinak.
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