Finishing the X11R7.5 katamari

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Sat Oct 3 08:20:07 PDT 2009


On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 09:13:57AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 03 October 2009, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >I still use xinit/startx to start X, and very much *do* consider it to
> >be an essential part of X.
> 
> +1000, Amen and hip hip hooray.  I have never started X any other way, and 
> consider it the only safe way to get a gui.  
> 
> Please do NOT remove that. Ever.
> 
> IMO 7.5 will be broken horribly if its not included.

It's still there.  You can still download and install it, we're just not
suggesting it form a part of the default install set.  We're never going
to remove the code, or the tarballs.

Cheers,
Daniel
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