Kiss svgalib goodbye?

[Tim Schmidt]

Excellent job...  you know the old axiom about removing everything
possible.  I'd be impressed if Hoary, with all the new features,
weighs in around the same size as Warty.  That may not be possible,
but I think it's a good goal.

--tim


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:03:37 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 06:06:16PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 
> > There are only two packages in main which require svgalib: SDL and GGI.  I
> > have uploads prepared which would remove svgalib support from both, and
> > allow svgalib to pass into universe.
> >
> > There are much better solutions than svgalib available on modern systems
> > (X and framebuffer), and svgalib applications must be setuid root, which
> > frequently introduces security vulnerabilities.
> >
> > Any objections to uploading these packages and demoting svgalib to universe?
> 
> I've uploaded libggi and libsdl1.2 with the changes.
> 
> 
> 
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