On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 08:38:21PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Yes there are people still using libsvga support and there even are > > packages that depend on it like bmv (a postscript viewer for console > > that is maintained by me and that is still actively developed). > > Therefore, please do not remove libsvga support before there is > > another option for previewing postscript files on the console > > (e.g. via framebuffer), since this would take away an important > > functionality from console only users!!! > > why not create a gs-svga package (which depends on gs) containing only > the gs binary compiled with svga support? that way those who need it can > have it, and those who don't can have one less setuid root program on > their system. You misunderstand my motivation to do away with the svga stuff. That code requires fixing on each package update and it is holding me back all the time. I don't care if svgalib-dummyg1 has to be installed for gs since that's only about 20kb. Instead there should be a "real" driver for the frame buffer or something along the line that everybody could use. GGI just died for this goal since it depends on the xlibs and I want to build a package without X11 support soon (now that xlibs are 5MB...) OTOH gs itself is just as big so I don't know if it is worth the effort. cu Torsten
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