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.
