Okay then, until this bug is fixed I will use my own version of the file. If you remember, can you email me when this bug gets closed? (I see you submitted it).
Thanks. Peter Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I just noticed that xwatch needs /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt. > > > Should I depend on xserver-common? It's a 424kB archives, 808kB > > installed. _Most_ systems that want xwatch will have it already, > > I suppose. > > My server doesn't have it (I manually copied it to this place), > because my server doesn't have any X-Server installed, but xwatch is > always running via ssh on my client machine... > > I think, that the placement of rgb.txt in xserver-common is a bug (see > #29814) and this file should be packed into xfree86-common or xlib6g > or something like this. > > > Or should I copy the file and have my own version > > /usr/share/xwatch/rgb.txt ? > > My first preference would be that XFree86 moves this file to a > different package (it is not only used by servers but by clients). > > Until this happens, I would prefer a private copy of this file, like > other programs also did: > > emacs20: /usr/share/emacs/20.3/etc/rgb.txt > latex2html: /usr/share/latex2html/styles/rgb.txt > x-symbol: /usr/share/xemacs/site-lisp/x-symbol/etc/rgb.txt