id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
2391	Convenience /etc/X11 symlinks point the other way round	alexander@…	DJ Lucas	"http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x-setup.html says:

  As a convenience, Xorg-7.2 users should populate the /etc/X11 directory with symlinks to various configuration directories that were located in /etc/X11 with previous versions of Xorg. This step is not needed for XFree86 users. Execute the following commands as the root user:

{{{
mkdir $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/twm &&
ln -svt /etc/X11 \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{fs,lbxproxy,proxymngr,rstart} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/{xdm,xinit,xserver,xsm} \
    $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/{app-defaults,twm,xkb}
}}}

I.e., it states that configuration files are not in /etc. This is a direct violation of FHS. The files should really live in /etc/X11, and $XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/{app-defaults,...} should be symlinks to /etc/X11/{app-defaults,...}

OTOH, in Debian, the configuration files are in /etc/X11, and the abovementioned symlinks do not exist. I should examine their way of building Xorg."	task	closed	normal	6.3	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed