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#1 2011-10-10 16:09:04
- arty_ayreon
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cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
Hi, guys. I would like to address arch development team here.
I've walked through diff between PKGBUILDs of cairo (extra) and cairo-xcb (AUR) - they r so minor.
Y can't PKGBUILD of cairo (extra) be changed to be equal to cairo-xcb's to allow cairo be awesome's dependency so that awesome can go to community?
Thanks.
P.S. I just want awesome in community so much 
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#2 2011-10-10 16:41:15
- karol
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Re: cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
awesome has been in community but got dropped.
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 17852.html
Last edited by karol (2011-10-10 16:42:12)
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#3 2011-10-10 17:00:17
- arty_ayreon
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Re: cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
So sad...
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#4 2011-10-10 17:08:43
- karol
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Re: cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
So sad...
What's the problem you have with building it from AUR? Have you tried using the precompiled package from [archlinuxfr] unofficial repo?
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#5 2011-10-10 21:44:57
- ANOKNUSA
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Re: cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
The differences in code may be minor, but differences in application exist. While I'm certainly no programmer, I do know that Cairo uses Xlib, whilst cairo-xcb utilizes XCB. My understanding is that since the latter is a more experimental implementation of the X server not really not really put to use by the Xorg devs, packages using it get defaulted to the AUR. Awesome depends on (was intended to utilize) XCB, so swithcing the dependency to Cairo alone won't cut it.
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#6 2011-10-11 14:50:18
- Mr.Elendig
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Re: cairo vs cairo-xcb in dependencies of awesome -> awesome to community?
I suggest reading this bug report, including the link in the close reason.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2011-10-11 14:50:38)
Evil #archlinux@libera.chat channel op and general support dude.
. files on github, Screenshots, Random pics and the rest
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