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Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 21:10:13 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: new cygwin package: cgoban
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Robert Collins wrote:

> 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?


Yeah, but X itself goes into /usr/X11R6/bin and that will never change. 
  So systems with X will have /usr/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin in their PATH 
no matter what.  So this is really a non-issue.

However, as I stated earlier, RH and SuSe and Mandrake all put their X 
applications into /usr/bin (with the exceptions noted previously).

 
> I'm 100% with you here. If it's a package, then it goes under release.
> If we want a completely separate tree, create a new location and a new
> setup.ini, and then that becomes the cygwin-xfree lists domain, and they
> can have whatever policy they want. Whilst it's in the main setup.ini,
> they need to follow the policies that this list has hammered out - with
> much pain.


I don't think there needs to be a *completely* separate tree.  I was 
just saying this:

release/cygwin
release/zlib
release/Xsomething/cgoban
release/Xsomething/windowmaker
release/Xsomething/lesstif
release/XFree86/xfree86-base/
release/XFree86/xfree86-fonts/
release/XFree86/xfree86-.../

All under release.  All follow the official rules for packaging.

**EXCEPT**
XFree86 itself is configured with --prefix=/usr/X11R6/  This has already 
been settled.

**MAYBE**
stuff that is X-linked (e.g. goes under release/Xsomething/) MIGHT be 
configured --prefix=/usr/X11R6/  IFF we amend the official rules to 
allow that.

We have not yet done so, and might not do it ever.

--Chuck