new cygwin package: cgoban
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Sat May 4 06:09:00 GMT 2002
Robert Collins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson@ece.gatech.edu]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 5:04 AM
>
> > Volker Zell agreed. Nobody else responded. I kinda like it, but FHS
> > has moved away from that; now on Red Hat systems it appears that ONLY
> > those programs specifically part of XFree86 are included there -- or
> > programs whose purpose is to manipulate XFree86 itself (like
> > third-party
> > Xconfigurators and such).
>
> I'm agnostic on this one, I don't use X enough to really care. However,
> Earnie has pointed out that extra path elements have a lamentable
> performance impact, so perhaps we should be avoiding that?
>
I see it's time for me to chime in. We the cygwin-apps developers must
insist that all X11 packages use --prefix=/usr/X11R6 because it's possible
for an X11 package to be both Win32 and X11, E.G.: rxvt. And I the user
could want to use either depending on the moode (spelling intentional) I'm
in.
Earnie.
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