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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Cause of XRender/LD_BIND_NOW interaction found.
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2002-02-23 23:56:25
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On Saturday 23 February 2002 23:18, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>
> that's not true. it's used on almost every free unix around. and i bet,
> that these are the majority of x-equipped unix systems today

Proprietary Unices are still doing quite well. Then again I guess it would be 
up to TT to evaluate that, according to their own customer stats.

> so what? why should this prevent them from enabling this workaround for
> a build on xf 4.0-4.1?

Because it's not worth the hassle. It's a purely a cosmetic problem, it 
doesn't break any functionality.

> you're assuming, that the patch is doing something potentially harmful.
> sorry, but that's utter crap. either you didn't understand the patch or
> you didn't even bother to read it at all.

No, I didn't read the patch. I'm just applying the same basic common sense 
which I've seen applied by companies shipping products. I did read a lot of 
"unharmful" patches which weren't so unharmful after all, though.

-- 
					Guillaume.
					http://www.telegraph-road.org
 
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