It was just a question of whether or not the libraries are actually 
needed. I'm building a nice, clean, (unofficial), set of 4.2 debs. I 
just wanted to make certain they aren't needed and prevent them from 
getting into the XF86Config.4. Thanks.

--Pat

Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Pat Suwalski wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:46:55 -0400
>>From: Pat Suwalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>>List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org>
>>Subject: XIE and PEX5?
>>
>>Hello again!
>>
>>Could anyone tell me briefly what happened to libpex5 and libxie between 
>>4.1.0 and 4.2.0? They still have directories under xc/programs/Xserver, 
>>but they don't actually product the libraries anymore as far as I can 
>>tell. Thanks!
> 
> 
> Both XIE and PEX are obsolete, and XFree86 now disables them by 
> default.  If you need either extension, or their libraries, you 
> need to edit host.def et al. and manually re-enable them.
> 
> The only problem that we've had reported to us here at Red Hat so
> far due to XFree86 disabling these two items, has been an older
> version of Mozilla needing XIE.  Any mozilla from the last year 
> or so, no longer requires XIE.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 



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