Disable xterm and XRX builds per default / [Fwd: CVS Update: xc(branch: trunk)]

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Sun Jan 23 23:06:10 PST 2005


Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Who decides such changes ? AFAIK the Xorg arch board or the Xorg
> > directory are allowed to make such a drastic change or approve it unless
> > it goes through a bug.
> 
> I don't think this is any more drastic than, say, bringing in a browser plugin.

The plugin was always there. Since X11R6.3.

1. Daniel: Are you still refusing to undo this commit [YES] / [NO] ?
2. The plugin was restored upon user request and even added to the
X11R6.8.x stable branch per request and release-wranglers consens.
Correct me if I am wrong: You violated that consens...

> > BTW: I am the XRX maintainer and I doubt all the non-Debian platforms
> > are that happy that you disabled xterm in the default build.
> 
> xrx != config/cf.

You did disable it in the default build, right ?

> I doubt the Fedora Core people would care much, since they too use the actual
> upstream source, instead of our lagged copy.

Other distributions _DO_ care. And for those which don't care is a
switch provided which should default to |YES|.

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Bye,
Roland

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