On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:55:16AM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > During the passage from xfree to xorg, libxft1 has been dropped in favor > of libXft2. I have no problem with that except that libXft1 is not > installable anymore (etch system). It depend on the old xfree packages. > > It is a problem since I have a few executables which link to this > library at runtime, and I only have the executables so no recompilation > possible. (GaussView but that does not matter). Is there a technical reason > to have dropped the version 1 of the library? Cause xorg is a fork of > xfree, so I would imagine that at least at the beginning libxft1 was > present... I guess that the whole story start there, but why... http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.maint.x/browse_thread/thread/126802b748193c4c/e7c1822b782c4065?lnk=st&q=libxft1+xorg+&rnum=1&hl=en#e7c1822b782c4065 jacques
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