xlib + xcms

[Jim Gettys]

You do get to make xcms a dynamically loaded library that Xlib can load
if it needs to (essentially never), which some folks might not bother to
load, to save space.

As Daniel said, you don't get to change the public API.  Full stop.
                     - Jim
 



On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 17:27 +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > I've just noticed that there're a few packages, which require
> > XCMS in libX11 (in fact, just seen it @ cairo), but I normally
> > use to do minimal builds. My system image builder just builds
> > what really needed, based on its dependency information.
> > This introduces the problem of dependencies on imported 
> > package's features - very, very tricky.
> > 
> > I'd be happier if it was an separate library. 
> > 
> > Does the official standard the xcms stuff as part of libX11 ?
> 
> You don't get to remove pieces of Xlib's API.  Full stop.
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