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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cairo XCB
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:04:03
Message-Id: 20100723215607.4a0a9632@karnak.local
1 On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:50:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user]
2 Cairo XCB:
3
4 >I have seen messages similar to these:
5 >
6 > * Messages for package x11-libs/cairo-1.8.10:
7 >
8 > * You have enabled the Cairo XCB backend which is used only by
9 > * a select few apps. The Cairo XCB backend is presently
10 > * un-maintained and needs a lot of work to get it caught up
11 > * to the Xrender and Xlib backends, which are the backends used
12 > * by most applications. See:
13 > * http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html
14 [snip]
15 >which means that it's the default. What should I do with it, wait
16 >until the default profile gets rid of it, or do something different?
17
18 My take is that the warning is against writing new applications that
19 might use the XCB back-end. Unless you are writing expressly X Window
20 (i.e. low level) applications, just ignore it.
21 --
22 Regards,
23
24 Dave [RLU #314465]
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26 dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon)
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