Subject: Re: Getting started with modular xorg
To: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 08/05/2007 09:39:18
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 15:28:18 +0200
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 11:30:18PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > More seriously -- not having any terminal emulator (and if there is
> > one, I missed it several times) is, I think, a mistake.  It
> > violates the rule of least surprise, always a bad thing.
> 
> Like I said, I think it violates POLA as well to include something
> that is not part of modular Xorg. We had a similiar situation with
> xorg-clients, as that always shipped way to ancient version of xterm.
> I don't mind that much whether or not it is included, but it feels not
> right to call it a modular Xorg component.
> 
OK -- but what about a MESSAGE warning people?


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb