libxf86config no longer usable

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:23:07AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr  6, 2010 at 14:09:10 +0200, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:54:49AM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Apr  6, 2010 at 01:36:20 +0200, Ruediger Oertel wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > I just can't come up with a clean idea how to solve this ...
> >> > >
> >> > kill libxf86config?  with fire?  :)
> >>
> >> If you want to kill applications, which use it, this would be the way to go
> >> ...
> >>
> > I've never been shipping that lib, so probably no apps using it either.
> > I didn't know anyone was...
> 
> I think yast uses it on suse to write xorg.conf files.

sax2 uses libxf86config. It's no longer used by default during installation by
YaST since openSUSE 11.2, but you still can run it manually if you need a
xorg.conf. Thus I would like to avoid dropping it already with openSUSE 11.3.

Best regards,
Stefan

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