Re: Getting started with modular xorg

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:28:18 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:30:18PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > More seriously -- not having any terminal emulator (and if there is
> > one, I missed it several times) is, I think, a mistake.  It
> > violates the rule of least surprise, always a bad thing.
> 
> Like I said, I think it violates POLA as well to include something
> that is not part of modular Xorg. We had a similiar situation with
> xorg-clients, as that always shipped way to ancient version of xterm.
> I don't mind that much whether or not it is included, but it feels not
> right to call it a modular Xorg component.
> 
OK -- but what about a MESSAGE warning people?


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb