Disable xterm and XRX builds per default / [Fwd: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)]

Mike A. Harris mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Thu Feb 17 02:34:58 PST 2005


Keith Packard wrote:

> What I would like to encourage is for some of the public distributions
> (like the BSDs, Debian, Gentoo, Fedora, etc) to use X.org CVS to maintain
> their build mechansism for the X.org related packages.  I think that would 
> improve the quality of those packages while making it clear what parts of 
> the build are 'standard' X.org and what parts are 'added value'.

If by that, you mean for us to maintain the relevant parts of linux.cf
to our distros, I agree.  That was frowned upon prior to X.Org, so
we've always hacked things up in host.def in all Red Hat OSes though.



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