Re: package needs rgb.txt
Okay then, until this bug is fixed I will use my own version of
the file.
If you remember, can you email me when this bug gets closed?
(I see you submitted it).
Thanks.
Peter
Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > I just noticed that xwatch needs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt.
>
> > Should I depend on xserver-common? It's a 424kB archives, 808kB
> > installed. _Most_ systems that want xwatch will have it already,
> > I suppose.
>
> My server doesn't have it (I manually copied it to this place),
> because my server doesn't have any X-Server installed, but xwatch is
> always running via ssh on my client machine...
>
> I think, that the placement of rgb.txt in xserver-common is a bug (see
> #29814) and this file should be packed into xfree86-common or xlib6g
> or something like this.
>
> > Or should I copy the file and have my own version
> > /usr/share/xwatch/rgb.txt ?
>
> My first preference would be that XFree86 moves this file to a
> different package (it is not only used by servers but by clients).
>
> Until this happens, I would prefer a private copy of this file, like
> other programs also did:
>
> emacs20: /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/rgb.txt
> latex2html: /usr/share/latex2html/styles/rgb.txt
> x-symbol: /usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp/x-symbol/etc/rgb.txt
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