Re: pkgsrc and XAPPLRESDIR

[Marc Balmer <mbalmer%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Am 13.11.11 17:56, schrieb Mouse:
>>> The whole X resource scheme is a legacy mess and it's not worth
>>> spending time to sort it out carefully, IMO.
>> It works amazingly well.
> 
> ...in the sense that a dancing bear dances amazingly well.  "It is not
> that it dances so well; it is that it dances at all."

I prefer a dancing mouse.

> 
>> Maybe folks spend not enough time learning it?
> 
> I did spend the time to learn X.  A lot of time.  I regularly compute
> sqrt(pi) in Roman numerals, in Henry Spencer(?)'s memorable phrase.
> I *still* think it's a mess (and that's not restricted to resources).
> 
> I still agree with what I wrote, back in 2008:
> 
> | I lay X's dominance not at the feet of technical merit - X is a good
> | example of something that sucks worse than everything except all the
> | alternatives anyone has tried, to steal a turn of phrase from Winston
> | Churchill - but at the feet of open licensing and widespread sample
> | implementations.
> 
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