On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:25:32AM +0530, [email protected] wrote:
> Do I rightly infer from
> http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.pod#CONFIGUR
> E_OPTIONS that --enable-pixbuf is better than --enable-afterimage in that a)
> it does not increase urxvt's memory footprint as much and b) it does not
> require any special library such as libafterimage to be installed?

a) yes b) boils down to what a special library is - pixbuf is certainly
available on a lot more systems than libafterimage.

> If so, are there any reasons against using --enable-pixbuf instead of
> --enable-afterimage?

only backwards compatibility - some features (that we deemed illogical,
broken or otherwsie undesirable) have changed or have been removed.

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