[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: AwesomeWM

[Ben Mendis]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Patrick J. Volkerding <
volkerdi at slackware.com> wrote:

> On 08/22/2011 09:34 AM, Ben Mendis wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Gwenhael Le Moine<
>> gwenhael.le.moine at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  2011/8/22 Arvydas Sidorenko<asido4 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I don't know if this is a proper way to inform you this, but yeh, all is
>>>> said below.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Recent versions of Awesome require altering quite a bit of Slackware's
>>> packages (from the top of my head: recompile cairo to include xcb
>>> support, update xcb-util, startup-notification, ...) which might go
>>> against SBo's guidelines
>>>
>>
>>
>> Is there some way we could ask Pat to include the necessary alterations in
>> the next version of Slackware. Alternately, is there a reason these are
>> turned off by default?
>>
>
> It isn't going to happen.  cairo-xcb is experimental, and liable to always
> be.
>
> Take care,
>
> Pat
>
>
> Hi Pat,

Thanks for giving us an explanation. That's a bit unfortunate but it's good
to know there's a good reason behind it.

Best regards,
Ben

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