Re: replacement for xv?
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 21:30, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:22:09AM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> > is there anything out there, supported by normal packages, that is by
> > any means as lightweight and powerful as xv?
>
> You could always continue to use xv, you know. It's not like the Potato
> package will suddenly become uninstallable (well it will when xlib6g
> finally disappears, of course).
>
> It's also not all that hard to maintain the xv package locally yourself.
You mean backporting (or forwardporting, as it may be) the the xv
deb-src?
Note that http://www.apt-get.org has unofficial sources of xv debs.
> Yes, I like xv, and yes, most of the alternatives to it make me insane... ^_^
It sure is nice. For viewing, gqview is also very good.
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> msw@cox.net | A pessimist is a married optimist.
Hey, be nice; I love being married. It's home ownership that makes me
a pessimist...
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