RFC: What to do with the stale/buggy Xft/Xrender in the tree.

[Mike A. Harris]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Keith Packard wrote:

>Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:20:53 -0800
>From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
>To: release-wranglers@freedesktop.org
>Cc: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
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>Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with the stale/buggy Xft/Xrender in the tree. 
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>Ok, if we're going to update the Xft/Xrender libraries, I'd like to get an 
>option included to *not* install them so that people using upstream 
>versions don't accidentally lose big if they make/install X.
>
>The default value for whether to install them should probably be 'false' 
>for most Linux distros which have already split out these libraries from 
>their X bits.

Agreed.

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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat