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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:08:18
Message-Id: 200607041900.58525.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announce: standalone libgpm by Enrico Weigelt
1 On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:47, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
2 > * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> schrieb:
3 > > > BTW: libgpm is an fork-off from gpm, which just contains the client
4 > > > stuff. Maybe it will evolve to an more generic mouse library, ie.
5 > > > supporting other interfaces, like sysmouse directly.
6 > >
7 > > my point is it shouldnt be a fork
8 >
9 > Yes, would be better, if it's included in the gpm release.
10 > But: it should be possible to build/install it independently from
11 > gpm, and also to build gpm against an already installed libgpm.
12 > So actually two separate packages, maybe distributed in one tarball.
13
14 considering gpm uses autotools, i really dont see why there needs to be all
15 that many changes ... write it correctly and it'd be easy to fold into
16 configure.ac/Makefile.am
17
18 ./configure --disable-binaries
19 -mike

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