On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:58 AM, José Carlos Carrión
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello colisters:
>
> I've finished the installation of LFS 6.4 without problems.
>
> I'm using BLFS-svn-20090102 in order to completing the installation of a
> server. Many packages installed without problems. I'm installing Xorg
> 7.4 with an eye on BLFS-svn-20090102 and the other on BLFS 6.3 (for
> example, I've installed the xorg-server-1.5.3 package with the
> --with-mesa-source=<dir to mesalib source> modifier as BLFS 6.3 reads).
>
> My big surprise rise when I've started to config X. I'm missing many X
> applications which has always been there. I've double checked the
> BLFS-6.3 app-7.2.wget list and the BLFS-svn-20090102 app-7.4.wget list.
> Both of them are similar to ftp.x.org dirs
> ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.2/src/app and
> ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.4/src/app, but a lot of X applications are
> missing in X11R7.4. The X11R7.2 app. list have 92 items and the X11R7.4
> list only 40.This is the whole list of missing applications in X11R7.4:
>
> bdftopcf (added by BLFS team to BLFS-svn-20090102 wget list)
> beforelight
> editres
> fonttosfnt
> fslsfonts
> fstobdf
> ico
> lbxproxy
> listres
> mkcfm
> oclock
> proxymngr
> rgb
> rstart
> scripts
> showfont
> twm (added by BLFS team to BLFS-svn-20090102 wget list)
> viewres
> xbiff
> xcalc
> xclipboard
> xclock (added by BLFS team to BLFS-svn-20090102 wget list)
> xconsole
> xdbedizzy
> xditview
> xdm
> xedit
> xeyes
> xfd
> xfindproxy
> xfontsel
> xfs
> xfsinfo
> xfwp
> xgc
> xinit (added by BLFS team to BLFS-svn-20090102 wget list)
> xkbprint
> xload
> xlogo
> xlsfonts
> xmag
> xman
> xmessage
> xmh
> xmore
> xphelloworld
>
> Obviously the problem is in Xorg and not in BLFS team.
> Anyone knows why this applications (many of them have been in X from
> many years ago and are very useful like xdm) have been «dropped» from
> X11R7.,4 official distro? I'm browsing in deep in the Xorg site but I
> couldn't find it.

Most of them are completely deprecated. The releases are still there,
though, and some are even still developed. Just look in
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/app/ and pick any
extras you want. The ones added back for BLFS (xinit/twm/etc.) are
just so that startx works out of the box. bdftopcf should probably be
added back upstream since building the fonts fails otherwise.

--
Dan
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