Official protest against bug 1060 / was: Re: Away for a fewdays..

[Roland Mainz]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > I have nothing against turning off that people can disable the Xprint
> > server side - but we are talking abiut the Xprint _client_ side
> > extension library - a piece of code, 25kB on x86 and _mandatory_ for X11
> > installations in these days. Sure, you can turn it off in your private
> > build - with the result that lots of applications don't run.
> 
> It was not mandatory in previous X.Org releases, who has determined it
> is now mandatory?

It wasn't used by tools _within_ the X.org tree. My point is that an X11
installation cannot simply drop libXp.so or you end an OS which can't
run lots of applications. Therefore building without libXp.so makes no
sense.

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Bye,
Roland

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