/usr/X11R6 slated for imminent death

[Jeff Johnson]

Hi all,
I recently went to see what the FHS had to see about X, and was mildly miffed
to see that it still specified /usr/X11R6.

X has historically lived there - but as things like Apache have migrated away
from /usr/appname, so has X. In the freedesktop.org modular distribution
(which now contains a server that can load XFree86 drivers -
debrix), /usr/X11R6 is strongly discouraged, and users are encouraged to
install to /usr instead for system installs (or ~, or something).

As both an upstreamer and a Debian X maintainer, I'd personally love to
kill /usr/X11R6 off in Debian - the quicker the better. Other distributions
have shadowed these intentions.

So, would it be possible to have the FHS:
  * Note that /usr/X11R6, while the accepted standard, is slated for
deprecation, and should contain a tree of shadowed links to /usr if necessary
(to avoid the cyclic link caused by /usr/X11R6->/usr).
  * Remove the notes about /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11.
or:
  * Note that /usr/X11R6 may/should be present, and specify its contents.
  * Also note that X may be located
in /usr/lib/X11, /usr/include/X11, /usr/bin, et al.

(One of the reasons is that we're thinking about X11R7 over at X.Org, and you
might as well kick it out of its own tree instead of going through the pain of
pointless change.)

Cheers!
:) d