openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Jindrich Novy]

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:55 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:27 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> >> Joachim Frieben wrote:
> >>> The "tetex-xdvi" package is missing from the list below. Of course, building
> >>> against "Openmotif" has always been optional. One would have to revert to
> >>> the "X/Athena" widget based interface in order to keep it in "core".
> >>> I suppose, moving "tetex" (or its successor) to "extras" was not part of the
> >>> agenda ...
> >> In the longer term I would very much like to move libXaw (and Xaw3d) to 
> >> extras as well.
> > 
> > So I hope teTeX will be in Extras as well in that time, because the only
> > remaining Athena - libXaw alternative: neXtaw is not in Core but in
> > Extras already.
> 
> That would be a prerequisite for removing Xaw from Core, yes.  I admit 
> unfamiliarity with the TeX stack; is there a viable gtk replacement for 
> teTeX?

The only GTK+ xdvi alternative I'm aware of is gtkdvi:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~johannes/gtkdvi/

But I haven't tried it yet. Hopefully it could solve the openmotif/Xaw
dependency hell in teTeX, so that libXaw could be moved to Extras as
well.

Jindrich
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