On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:23:42PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Portalier Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dude... if X 4.3 is needed by Gnome 2.4 (or even only the > > control-center), we're far to see it in Debian... > > I'm not sure I really want to know, but why does 2.4 (or the > control-center in 2.4) require X 4.3? Gnome 2.2 seems to run happily > under X 3.6.x...
I have not really checked, but since there was speak of the control-center being the one needing it, i guess that it is because it includes some stuff using libxcursor or something, and is able to use set the new transparent alpha-blended cursor. Other possibility is that gnome 2.4 makes uses of the render extension, which is only present in 4.3.0. In the first case, it is easily disabled i think, in the second case, i guess it would be much more difficult if there is not a disabling option builtin. Anyway, packaging 2.4 in experimental sounds fine, my objection is that it is difficult to separate experimental stuff wanted from other random breakage that was in experimental before, but until we have experimental subpools, this cannot be helped, altough the pinning stuff should help a lot. I guess most people would not know about it though, nor if some kind of doc for experimental is needed. Friendly, Sven Luther
