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Re: No longer on default Linux builds



   Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 12:03:35 +1000 (GMT+1000)
   From: Andrae Muys <a.muys@mailbox.uq.edu.au>

   On Fri, 14 May 1999, A. Rick Anderson wrote:

   > In the old days, XConq was on the default linux builds.  I noticed that
   > that is no longer the case.  Considering that I originally bought Linux
   > because of XConq, this seems like a shame.

   Well this is probably the wrong forum, but I like the sentiment :).

   Still grab the cvs tree, build an rpm and submit it to redhat, build a
   .deb and submit it to debian, build a <shrug> and submit it to slackware,
   etc, etc, et al.

Yes, I would appreciate it if people would take up that activity.  I
can't do it all myself!

   It's probably been dropped from the distributions because there isn't a
   maintainer for the binary packages.

You're almost certainly right.  Usually the binary package maintainers
have to do a tweak or two to get Xconq set up just right for a system.

The other possibility is that with the growing amount of Linux software,
Xconq is getting crowded out by other packages, both games and non-games.
Of course, this is completely unacceptable, and we must work to make sure
that Xconq is recognized as superior to all other Linux games... :-)

								Stan


		

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