Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: net-misc/nxclient-2xterminalserver and net-misc/nxserver-2xterminalserver
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:24:27
Message-Id: 6e77f9a002a5b146be8d98a97d861653@localhost
1 They will be moved to the NX overlay in one month
2
3 # Bernard Cafarelli <voyageur@g.o> (04 Dec 2008)
4 # Masked for removal in 30 days (bug #249799)
5 # * Upstream closed web site and source downloads
6 # * No updates since first release 2 years ago
7 # * Still based on old NX 1.5 code, missing features and being mostly
8 # incompatible with current NX servers/clients
9 # * Client does not compile with gcc4.3 or --as-needed (bug #248138).
10 # * Server includes old, unpatched xorg sources, probably vulnerable to
11 GLSA
12 # 200710-09 and 200804-05.
13 # * GPL alternatives exist: net-misc/qtnx, net-misc/nxserver-freenx
14 net-misc/nxclient-2xterminalserver
15 net-misc/nxserver-2xterminalserver
16
17 --
18 Bernard Cafarelli (Voyageur)
19 Gentoo developer (NX, GNUstep, net-misc, ...)