On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 4:31 PM, DJ Lucas <d...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 04:45:29PM +0200, Igor Živković wrote: >>> Is there any reason why libdrm is in the general libraries section? >>I'd >>> propose to move it to X installation before MesaLib or at very least >>to >>> X libraries section since it depends on X libraries. What do you >>think? >>> >> I think it's there because of history. I can see it in the 6.2.0 >>version of the book in the museum. We still had "traditional" X >>(i.e. monolithic) in both Xorg and XFree86 flavours, as well as >>Modular X (7.1). At that time, Mesa was listed among the >>X libraries (because it required libraries from Xorg. No idea why >>libdrm went into general libraries. >> >> Personally, I think moving it to chapter 24 makes a lot of sense - >>the only reason I can see for installing libdrm is to build Xorg. > > History is right, despite the seemingly logical order, Xorg packages are from > X.org and the libdrm package is from freedesktop.org. Like Mesa, it isn't > part of core X. We already make a few exceptions to the core for xclock, twm, > and xinit (which could probably go at this point), but those are all formerly > a part of the distribution. > > > > -- DJ
hmm, what do people use over xinit? Still using that myself for openbox. -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
