Why do I have to rant about Red Hat SCREWING with XFree every upgrade?

[Walter Francis <wally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Upgrading rom 7.3 last time to 8.0 I came across this SAME PROBLEM that I 
thought surely to god they fixed.. no...

Official XFree86 sources use /etc/X11/xkb as a directory and 
/usr/X11R6/lib/xkb links to that directory.  Red Hat does this totally 
backwards, they make /usr/X11R6/lib/xkb the directory and /usr/X11/xkb links 
to it, so the RPM barfs and the hour of installation is wasted because 
Anaconda goes tits up because it can't deal with it.

Options:

STOP BUGGERING WITH THESE TWO DIRS/LINKS!

Make the RPM scripts able to handle this situation, I KNOW I'm not the only 
one that sometimes updates XFree from source!

Make Anaconda able to handle these types of situations gracefully, and 
either give the user a chance to fix the problem manually (given a chroot 
and some suggestions most users could at least try to figure it out..  I 
could have fixed it in 30s and continued).  No, Anaconda says "Oh, I 
couldn't do some meanial thing..  Press OK to reboot."

Don't tell me Red Hat doesn't support source installed things, that's a 
bunch of crap because IT HAPPENS.  I KNOW they can't possibly work around 
situations, but praytell why are these dir/links *backwards* in the first 
damn place?  That's the root of the problem.

I'll be looking for a bugzilla on this one, again..   Filed one last time too.

There's 1+ hours wasted.

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Walter Francis
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