Re: Policy regarding Motif apps?
William S. Gribble writes:
> I'm wondering what the Debian developers' and users' views are about Motif
> apps. Should they be available as Debian packages at all? If so, should
> the binary packages be statically linked, which is gross, or dynamically
> linked, requiring that you have Motif libraries installed? Maybe both
> should be available? I personally have Motif installed, and it irks me to
> have to use a statically-linked Netscrape, so I wouldn't be too thrilled
> about a bunch of other static Motif apps.
Not owning Motif myself I'd like to see static versions, but I agree that
it would be good to also have dynamically linked versions as well.
How about xmcd for another motif app as well, I'm sure there are quite
a few more decent motif apps out there.
Andrew
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