Re: Rationale for package removals?

On 9 Sep 2002, Jean Francois Martinez wrote:

>> They were never added to Xconfigurator either. About the only RFE
>> I would have is Include xf86cfg, or at least ALL the functionality it has.
>> I'm usually using newer versions of X/DRI and the kernel. I usebuild the
>> SRPM and build myself (and don't file bugs since my setup is unsupported:)
>> 
>> >features.  Otherwise people would use it and then say "damn, this 
>> >sucks, I'll just use Xconsuckurator instead" and the problem 
>> >never gets fixed.
>> >  
>> >
>> I always thoughh Xconfigurator sucked too.I liked XF86Setup.
>> It had problems, but looked like a good start.
>> 
>
>My experience (who dates from the Halloween release and spans at least a
>dozen cards) with Xconfigurator was that it ever made a breeze
>configuring X and since the moment I got a PCI box, it was still easier
>since it autodetected the card(and in latest  releases the monitor
>too).  For the XFree tools since I am a
>politically uncorrect person I don't mind telling the emperor is naked
>and the XFree tools being two pieces of crap with poor user interfaces,
>often failing to provide a working configuration and who get me strictly
>nothing that I cannot get far easier and faster with Xconfigurator plus
>xvidtune.   My grip with RedHat is that they haven't made a better front
>end to xvidtune like the one shipped in Suse.

Put that in bugzilla!  ;o)

Feature request for redhat-config-xfree86.  It is a completely 
sensible feature request, and indeed would be nice to have in 
some future redhat-config-xfree86 package release.


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