Re: [Cooker] Questions about xscreensaver

[Frederic Crozat]

On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 16:55:14 -0300, Claudio Matsuoka wrote:

> 
> A few questions about xscreensaver:
> 
> - Why are both xscreensaver and xlockmore required by gnome-panel?
>   Perhaps we could choose one only of them? (xscreensaver seems to
>   be the more actively maintained, and has IMHO more interesting
>   screensavers).

xscreensaver is the default screensaver for GNOME. Unfortunately, it
refuses to start when you are logged as root, preventing root to be able
to lock its own workstation (stupid, isn't it..). This is why I added a
dependency to xlockmore for this specific case.

> - Why was xjack removed from the package?

I don't know... Götz ?

> - Why the matrix-like screensavers were moved to plf? (and starwars were
>   not?)

Copyright issues, we tend to be very sensitive about this (did somebody
said something about a magician in a comic book ;)

> - The upstream method of packaging hacks seems to offer a much better
>   maintenance cost and prevents errors. Any reason not to use it? (A
>   modified version is used in the Conectiva Linux package and works
>   quite well).

Well, I've never been a big fan of file list (because you don't really see
which files end where) and I guess this method was written in xscreensaver
own specfile way after I wrote the initial split in our own xscreensaver
package. But I have no objection to switch to this method..

-- 
Frederic Crozat
Mandriva