On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Gregor Best <[email protected]> wrote: > > FWIW, here in Gentoo land, it's just a matter of running > > > > emerge awesome > > In Arch land, most users have an AUR helper, so it really just takes > yaourt -S awesome > or whatever. > > It would be nice to have awesome in the official repos, but > definitelly not super needed.
Indeed. Any Arch user comfortable with Awesome will have no problems, but Awesome is so well used in Arch it's almost daft that it's not in the repos proper. I suppose that as long as the XCB backend for Cairo is "experimental", this will continue. It seems three years ago there was a proposal to merge the XCB backend with the Xlib one [1], but I don't know what happened to that. I suppose the real question is whether or not the XCB backend will get some more love and be made/declared stable, or whether with no love, it will just become old and crufty. Given what triggered Arch's decision, it's a shame I can't find any bug on either the Mozilla site or the Cairo bugtracker related to the Seamonkey problem. If Cairo-XCB does become old and crufty, then I suppose the OP's question was "what will Awesome do?". Pete. [1] http://cairographics.org/summerofcode/ideas/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
