Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mike Lundy <novas007@×××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X...
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:58:59
Message-Id: 200606300055.44693.novas007@gmx.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Moving X... by Hamish Marson
1 On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:55, Hamish Marson wrote:
2 > Under /usr/X11R6 I can have several copies... Generic, CVS and old
3 > working etc... Moving it to /usr has meant I can't do that any more.
4 > And makes debugging problems a real pain.
5
6 Also (though it's not quite as fast) if you don't like the prefix-path idea,
7 you could build binary packages of each and switch between them that way. You
8 can even use quickpkg to package the current one so you don't have to rebuild
9 that one. It's not quite the same (config files have to be massaged) but
10 it'll work.