Problems installing Xorg 7.4

[Bruce Dubbs]

DJ Lucas wrote:
> José Carlos Carrión wrote:
> 
>> Obviously the problem is in Xorg and not in BLFS team.
>> Anyone knows why this applications (many of them have been in X from 
>> many years ago and are very useful like xdm) have been «dropped» from 
>> X11R7.,4 official distro? I'm browsing in deep in the Xorg site but I 
>> couldn't find it.
>>
> 
> Xorg is targeting Linux distributions.  Most of the dropped apps are 
> never installed by a distribution, this includes bdftopcf and twm, 
> though we've left those two in BLFS because they are still needed to 
> build and test the system.  Most of the dropped apps are still perfectly 
> valid, and continue to be developed.  They are just not a part of the 
> 'official' Xorg distribution as they are not needed/used by Linux 
> distributions.  Though I haven't tested, the existing instructions are 
> probably good for any of the apps that were dropped between versions.

DJ, I think it would be good to have that information in the book's introduction 
to Xorg.

   -- Bruce