[PATCH xsetmode] Remove dead code the-l option

Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD.org
Tue Jul 9 01:41:42 PDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 11:53:56PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 07/ 8/13 03:55 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> >Remove dead code the-l option that seems copied from another utility
> >(xsetpointer) but never executed.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr>
> >---
> >  xsetmode.c |   14 ++------------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> 
> Dead code in a dead program.   Pushed, though like xsetpointer, it's
> not had a release since X11R7.0.
> 
> Hopefully no distros are still shipping these - it only takes 5 minutes
> to publish a release if there's need, but if no one has done that since
> 2005, it's hard to claim there's demand for it.

We still have it in pkgsrc. If you give me a good reason I can remove
it. Like: what is the replacement, or why is it completely unneeded.

Thanks,
 Thomas


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