On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:55:16AM -0600, Jacques Normand wrote: > Hi, > > During the passage from xfree to xorg, libxft1 has been dropped in favor > of libXft2. I have no problem with that except that libXft1 is not > installable anymore (etch system). It depend on the old xfree packages. > > It is a problem since I have a few executables which link to this > library at runtime, and I only have the executables so no recompilation > possible. (GaussView but that does not matter). Is there a technical reason > to have dropped the version 1 of the library? Cause xorg is a fork of > xfree, so I would imagine that at least at the beginning libxft1 was > present...
Upstream has dropped Xft1 as of the X11R7 release. The reason seems to be that no one cared about it enough to modularize it. If you want to have libxft1, I suggest talking to upstream. You'll probably have to do the modularization yourself if you want to have it done though. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
