FS#16556 - remove libxxf86dga, dgaproto, libxinerama, xineramaproto

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Saturday, 10 October 2009, 10:28 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 08:07 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2009.08
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

What do you think about removing the listed packages from extra?
As far as I've read it the functionality of xinerama is replaced by xrandr. The only package which is broken on my system is 4l from aur. This is a binary only program, so I can't recompile it.

To be honest I don't really understand what the dga protocol is useful for, but my system works fine without it. ;-) From this post it sounds to me, that it is needed in some games: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-September/002060.html
I've also seen dga as a video renderer option in mplayer, but I don't know if anybody ever uses this protocol.

And to prevent some questions: no, there wasn't anything broken on my system using xinerama or dga. I just don't understand what they're supposed to do and they seem to be somewhat depricated.

If somebody has some use for this stuff I would be interested to learn about, so I can understand what these are good for.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 10 November 2009, 08:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Both extensions are still implemented in the server, so removing them is not an option here.
Comment by Martin Stolpe (BertiBoeller) - Saturday, 10 October 2009, 13:50 GMT
ok, removing libxinerama is perhaps a stupid idea. I just realized that compiz also needs this.

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