DJ Lucas wrote: > José Carlos Carrión wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Xorg is targeting Linux distributions. Most of the dropped apps are > never installed by a distribution, this includes bdftopcf and twm, > though we've left those two in BLFS because they are still needed to > build and test the system. Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly > valid, and continue to be developed. They are just not a part of the > 'official' Xorg distribution as they are not needed/used by Linux > distributions. Though I haven't tested, the existing instructions are > probably good for any of the apps that were dropped between versions.
DJ, I think it would be good to have that information in the book's introduction to Xorg. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
