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Date:	Sat, 04 May 2002 09:07:46 -0400
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To:	Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
CC:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>, cygwin-apps AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: new cygwin package: cgoban
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Robert Collins wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT 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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