I asked for this some time ago in withlist bug #305540 but it was left without effect. Maybe you guys where too busy with preperaing releasing sarge then, and/or didn't want to introduce such changes just before sarge release, but now in the post-sarge era maybe my plea will get some response. Could Debian provide an XTerm be compiled with --enable-256-color passed to ./configure? ELinks http://elinks.or.cz/download.html is a great textmode webbrowser, and now it supports 256 color mode, which looks really great To try it, use my CVS debs from deb http://ffii.org/~miernik/debian sid main Or perhaps, because this inscreases the memory usage of xterm, if you feel that the increase would be significant, and not useful for most users, Debian could provide two versions of the xterm package, one like it is now, and a second one for example xterm-256color? The Debian packages of X are made in such a way, that you cannot compile only one of them, you have to recompile the whole Xorg set, which is huge download of sources and takes a really long time, so it's very difficult for example for me to package xterm with 256 colors enabled each time a new release of X is done by Debian, which happens quite often. -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:miernik@amessage.info ___________________/_______________________/ mailto:miernik@ffii.org Protect Europe from a legal disaster. Petition against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/index_html?LANG=en
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