On Tuesday 23 April 2002 01:36 am, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Alan wrote:
> > > > In looking at the spec file for xscreensaver I notice that xmatrix
> > > > and extrusion are set not to build.
> > > >
> > > > extrusion I can understand because it requires a specialized GL
> > > > extrusion library.
> > >
> > > As a matter of fact, the gle library is in cooker too.
> >
> > OK... Then why are either disabled?
>
> xmatrix: of course it's the stupid copyright

If this is correct, then someone is stretching copyright paranoia a little too 
far.  

Are there any other distributions that disable this one? 

Why are there other undisabled screensavers based on films? (Starwars and 
lament, for example.)

> extrusion: gle is in contrib (and things on main
>            distro shouldn't depend on contrib stuff),
>          and gle is not used by anything else for now.
>          Perhaps adding a toggle on xscreensaver
>          RPM is a good thing. But xscreensaver may
>          have some bigger change (choose either the
>          official xscreensaver or gnome-branched one),
>          so it's for fcrozat to consider it...

Or just add a "xscreensaver-extrusion" rpm in contrib.

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