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List:       cygwin-xfree
Subject:    Re: rman
From:       Thomas Dickey <dickey () his ! com>
Date:       2008-09-15 10:05:54
Message-ID: 20080915060403.B56260 () mail101 ! his ! com
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On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 04:11:19PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008, wehmann@fnal.gov wrote:
>>> 2) I don't see that rman needs an X-server, so it is puzzling why it is
>>> found where it is.
>>
>> It's there simply because the program was useful for XFree86, and the
>> original version didn't generate very useful html.  (iirc, about 10% of
>> the resulting files were too badly mangled to read).
>
> That's interesting.  It sounds like when/if we finally release an updated
> version of X, rman should be in its own package.

agree (I hadn't looked for a while, but checking yesterday saw only an old
CVS for rman on xorg, and the corresponding "extras" or any reference to
rman in their git were both missing).

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Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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