Re: What bits of Gnome take advantage of XFree 4.3.0?

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Ryan Quarry">

> >I've just compiled 4.3.0 from source and now I'm wondering what bits of
> >GARNOME are able to take advantage of that 
> 
> You may have noticed that Xfree 4.3.0 comes with the Xrender, Xft, and Freetype
> libraries as part of the release, three libraries that garnome also compiles as
> well.

> I don't think you will see any real impact or advantage to re-compiling garnome
> against X 4.3.0, but it certainly does simplify things a little bit. Doing so
> will allow you to remove the above libraries from the garnome tree and use the
> Xfree versions that are already installed. The mailing list has more than a few
> tibits on how to go about doing this.

I would strongly recommend that you use the releases built by GARNOME, as
they are far more recent than anything in the XFree86 tree, and are for all
intents and purposes maintained entirely separately these days.

- Jeff

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