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Re: Today's the day...



On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 07:10, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:23:42PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> > Portalier Julien <julien@portalier.com> writes:
> > > Dude... if X 4.3 is needed by Gnome 2.4 (or even only the
> > > control-center), we're far to see it in Debian...
> > 
> > I'm not sure I really want to know, but why does 2.4 (or the
> > control-center in 2.4) require X 4.3?  Gnome 2.2 seems to run happily
> > under X 3.6.x...
> 
> I have not really checked, but since there was speak of the
> control-center being the one needing it, i guess that it is because it
> includes some stuff using libxcursor or something, and is able to use
> set the new transparent alpha-blended cursor.
> 
> Other possibility is that gnome 2.4 makes uses of the render extension,
> which is only present in 4.3.0. 

That's just not true. There are also xrender and xcursor packages in
sid, so I fail to see the problem (except maybe for the bugs in those
packages).


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