[PATCH xsetmode] Remove dead code the-l option
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Jul 9 08:45:51 PDT 2013
On 07/ 9/13 01:41 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> 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.
Peter would know best, but I believe both xsetpointer & xsetmode are
completely replaced by the app/xinput program.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
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