/usr/bin/X11 broken?

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
>>I am new to this list, though not completely new to linux. I have used 
>>SuSe, Gentoo and Debian before and am quite pleased with Ubuntu.
>>I have question though, concerning the PATH, which contains /usr/bin/X11.
>>In Ubuntu, it is /usr/bin/X11 -> ../bin
>>in Debian, it is /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin, which makes more sense.
> 
> 
> No, those distributions still have XFree86 or xorg 6.9 or earlier.
> Ubuntu ships now with Xorg 7.0, so /usr/X11R6 does not make sense
> anyway. It would be /usr/X11R7, but upstream has choosen to comply with
> the FHS and use /usr/bin instead.
> 
> 
>>The first problem is that -> ../bin is a recursive link and
>>the second is that apps which reside in /usr/X11R6/bin are not 
>>accessible without changing PATH. xclip is an example for such an app.
> 
> 
> Please file bugs against packages still installing binaries in
> /usr/X11R6/bin. They need to install binaries to /usr/bin.
> 

Bug #30222 in xclip (Ubuntu): "xclip installs binary in wrong directory 
/usr/X11R6/bin"

--Heinrich