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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] Xfree86 spell change
  • Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:35:53 -0700

>
> the xfree86 spell is being forked and reincarnated.
> xfree86 will revert to 4.3.0.1 the last stable release and all the bleeding
> edge band-aid brigade can use xfree86-devel which is getting upped to
> 4.3.99.12
> There were a few spells in the grimoire that explicitly depended on xfree86.
> The now require x11-libs as we have 4 providers for x11-libs and 3 for
> x11-server (xfree86-libs, xfree86, xfree86-devel and xdirectfb)
> Nearly every spell that relied on xfree86 should now build with
> xfree86-libs
> alone. There will be some minor depends bugs but nothing for anyone to have
> a
> cow over.
> A few still have optional depends for xfree86 but as soon as some spells
> "provides" are fixed sorcery will be updated to handle "optional_requires".

I have one thing to say: awesome! thank you for all the work.

-Andrew

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