At Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:21:37 +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: [...]
> Everyone working on and packaging X has my deepest respect if > that helps. :-) However, that doesn't mean that I can recommend > it to anyone; it's such a convoluted thing. Some time back, I > was playing with the R200 DRI drivers and recompiled the whole > mess on a regular basis. It was always a tedious procedure, > including removing one line from a Wacom tablet driver that > made the compiler throw up for unknown reasons. [...] > Just thinking about hacking that monster in different parts > like xlibs, xserver etc. makes me shudder. Is there a "mental > state" of the X maintainers somewhere? :-P I tend to compile every official Debian XF86 release (and some unofficial "experimental" ones as well). I'm no hacker but I'm able to build almost every one of them. So I don't think it's that "terrifying", at least as far as the apt-get'able Debian source packages are concerned. Now if you're talking about building OpenOffice... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
