On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 10:42:50PM +0000, Pablo Baena wrote: > I tested Xfree86 4.0 days ago. It works (for me) but there are quite a lot > packages that won't work anymore with it (or quite work). So, Xfree86 4.0 > definitively wont't enter potato, and it will be hard to release it > even in woody since all the problems it will generate with anything else. > So leave Branden alone, and if you want Xfree86 4.0, go get the source > from www.xfree86.org. You'll be surprised on how smoothly it compiles > and installs itself! One reason I tore into Sven so hard on this point is that he actually is an XFree86 Developer (as am I). I would expect members of that development team to know how to build X from source. I would not insist upon such knowledge from Debian users generally, or from very many of my fellow Debian developers. -- G. Branden Robinson | Reality is what refuses to go away when Debian GNU/Linux | I stop believing in it. branden@ecn.purdue.edu | -- Philip K. Dick roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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