On Thu, Nov 22, at 05:07 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote these words on 11/22/07 15:19 CST:
> 
> > And without fun, I think the book needs some cleanups and this is
> > a perfect candidate for removal.
> 
> Why? There are still packages that use it as a dependency. Not sure
> which one but I see I installed it in my last build, which means it
> is a dependency of something.

Guess you are right; balsa and w3m depend on it. 

> 
> What is gained by removing it from the book? It's a maintenance-free
> type package, right?

As long you (at least you) are building it and confirm that works, then -yes-
it's a maintenance-free package.
I am not building it in every new build. I just compiled it once before
months (months I believe), and I call the uncompface binary from a script, just
to view xfaces in the rare case some uses an xface image in her/his client.

It worked so far so I hadn't the need to rebuilt it, till now that I had
to do it for the update. The package was un-maintanable for years in the
book. The last release was in October of 2005 and nobody bothered to update
it.

I just don't think that is enough important package to have it in the
book. That's all, nothing else.

So please disregard.

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