On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Egbert Eich wrote: >Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:36:26 +0200 >From: Egbert Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: General X Discussion <xpert.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: Re: XIE and PEX5? > >Mike A. Harris writes: > > > > 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. > > > >As far as I know Mozilla never called any XIE functions even in >the older versions. The libXIE was just included in the list of >libs to link against. It could be removed.
When I disabled PEX and XIE about a year ago in our builds, Mozilla no longer worked at the time, so I re-enabled it just for Mozilla (X 4.1.0). Chris Blizzard made sure that Mozilla didn't need XIE after that, but I don't know what all was involved specifically. I did get various bug reports from Mozilla users that Mozilla no longer worked after I disabled XIE though. No bugs were reported to us for any other software though. >Appearantly noone uses XIE at the moment. Hope not. ;o) Even moreso I hope nobody uses PEX. ;o) Take care, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
