Mike A. Harris wrote:
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What's changing specifically:
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X.Org X11 will no longer use the /usr/X11R6 directory hierarchy
at all. It uses /usr, and installs files where you'd expect
them to be found within that heirarchy more or less (although
it is a bit buggy in this regard currently, that'll be fixed
prior to X11R7's final release). The libraries, binaries,
fonts, config files, data files - everything is moving.
Along with this upstream X.Org change, there will be a number
of backward compatibility issues that we'll face, where we
may need to provide backward compatible symlinks for cases like
applications hard coding the path to X binaries instead of
using "which <appname>" and similar. We'll be keeping an
eye on such issues and considering where we should provide
compatibility links.
What we'd like volunteers to help with:
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1) A lot of existing Fedora Core, Fedora Extras and other 3rd
party packages currently install themselves into /usr/X11R6,
need to be updated to install themselves in a more
appropriate location under /usr, using %{_datadir} and
friends in their rpm specfiles. Volunteers are needed who
are willing to take on the task of reporting bugs against
the offending packages, and preferably also attaching
patches to fix the rpms.
2) A number of packages might have shell scripts, .desktop
files, or other things with hard coded paths to binaries
such as /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, or to data files, or other
files traditionally installed under /usr/X11R6. Please
report bugs against these packages, and where possible,
change them to use "which <appname>" instead of hard
coding the path to the executable/file directly. In some
cases dynamic solution might not work, so hard code the
new path in that case unless there's another appropriate
solution apparent.
3) If you can personally think of any application or compat
problems that might occur when the changeover is made,
please report them to me via email in advance, so we can
try to find a solution sooner than later.
This message is being sent out to encourage community
involvement in the process, and to help weed out problems
sooner in the development cycle than later on, as there
is likely to be a fair amount of package churn, so we'd
like to get things in order far far in advance of
FC5test1.
Thanks in advance for any feedback, and also to any
volunteers who decide to help out.
At this time, I'd like to thank the large number of volunteers
who responded to this query (zero), as that will greatly help
to make sure everything works after modular X goes into
rawhide. ;o)
We will be finding/fixing anything obvious we find prior to
it hitting rawhide, however if we miss anything I'm sure that
we'll find out after it goes live in rawhide and everyone
suddenly becomes a volunteer. ;o)
Thanks again.
TTYL
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