Further notes on 7.4

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Jul 1 16:33:16 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:21:03PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/7/1 Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net>:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 15:22 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> - twm/xdm: Certainly legacy in the window/display manager world, but
> >> it seems strange to install X without one of each. Also, the default
> >> xinitrc runs twm, xclock and xterm, none of which would be available
> >> with the core X installation.
> 
> > That's really just tempting me to remove startx from the list as well.
> 
> Put it all in a separate tarball called "classic," for those who still
> treasure their O'Reilly X books ;-)

Exactment.  Our core business is the implementation of the X Window
System.  Testing is counted separately, so why do we tie a sample
implementation of what people should try to avoid when designing desktop
environments to our most important development?

Cheers,
Daniel
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