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From: casey@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: trouble making R3 on a sun
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Date: 14 Dec 88 02:52:58 GMT
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| From: sid@friday.rtech.UUCP (Sid Shapiro)
| 
| Hi folks, I'm trying to make R3 on a sun.  In site.def it says that it is
| strongly recommended that I don't override any directory definitions.
| Naturally, I need to do this.  [Details of problems changing the default
| directories.]

  I didn't have any problems, but I do think that the ``... you shouldn't
change where things are installed ... use links ...'' is completely absurd
and a disservice to people trying to install X.  The plain fact of the
matter is that almost NO ONE wants X where the defaults specify.

  For instance, I have to maintain five Sun clusters currently.  In order
to keep ourselves sane, we put EVERYTHING below /usr/local on one of the
systems and then do rdists of everything except source to all the other
systems.  It isn't a big thing, but it's a clean up for us and keeps our
lives a lot simpler.

  But, aside from the abuse about that comment, I have to say that X has
become one of the easiest packages to retarget I've ever dealt with.
V11R3 has come a long way since the grodey days of V10R3.  Apparently
David Tillbrooks comments on software retargeting/installation are
finally being paid attention to.

Casey