[petsc-dev] Why is X11.py different?

[Barry Smith]

On Nov 9, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> It manages searching paths entirely differently from the other packages.  Is there a special reason for this, or is it just legacy?  Additionally, both --with-x* and --with-x11* show up in argDB.
> 
> Jed

  It was written long before the package.py stuff was written and became so ugly and complicated that no one has wanted to fix it to use package.py

   Barry