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- Subject: IMPORTANT: xinitrc soon to be obsolete and replaced by xorg-x11-xinit and xorg-x11-xdm
- From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:37:20 -0500
- Reply-to: Development discussions related to Fedora Core <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
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In the near future, modular X will be landing in rawhide as many are aware. One new change this will bring, is 2 new packages: xorg-x11-xdm xorg-x11-xinit The xdm package is new, because it is now it's own src.rpm, not a subpackage of xorg-x11. The xinit package contains the xinit binary, and it's related scripts and whatnot. A side effect of this, is that the "xinitrc" package which we have shipped for many years, which contained the xinitrc scripts and configs, and xdm scripts and configs - is now no longer needed. The various scripts/configs that were previously in "xinitrc" will be moved into the xorg-x11-xinit or xorg-x11-xdm modular X packages as appropriate. This change will not occur until modular X is integrated directly into the rawhide tree. This message is just a heads up of this change, in order to prepare other developers who might have packages which currently depend on the "xinitrc" package, that depending on if/how their package lists its dependencies, it may soon need to be updated to do one of: Requires: xorg-x11-xinit or Requires: xorg-x11-xdm Possible packages that might be affected, are gdm, kdm, and various i18n related packages such as input method servers. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
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