Screensavers for FC4?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jun 20 01:27:13 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 09:23:05PM -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> >Bottom line: while the xscreensaver program remains part of Core, the 
> >individual screensaver programs are now moved to Extras.
> >
> The packages are distributed with FC4 on the installation discs and are 
> still located in core. I believe the upstream xscreensaver is split in 
> such a way also. Base, extras and gl-extras.
> Since the programs are all compiled at the same time, you would want to 
> keep them located in the same repostory for maintainng a uniform build.

Yeah -- I guess in hindsight putting "extras" in the package name is a bit
confusing. 

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