HEADS-UP: Modular X11 (ALL maintainers, please read)

James R. Phillips antiskid56-cygwin@yahoo.com
Mon Apr 17 22:07:00 GMT 2006


--- Igor Peshansky wrote:

> 
> X is part of the base Debian install.  It is not part of the base Cygwin
> install.
> 

Um, that is not true.  It is still perfectly possible to setup a debian install
without any X libraries.  But of course you couldn't install ghostscript.

> Unless the set of X libraries is *really* small, it would make sense to
> have a non-X version of ghostscript.
> 

OK, we'll have to wait and see on that.  Otherwise, I guess we have consensus
in principle on a method to carry both versions forward.

jrp



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