Still missing xeyes - may show up in extras

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Mar 2 00:01:18 UTC 2005


Oliver Falk wrote:
> Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fedora Core 3 no longer includes the xeyes utility as part of 
>>xorg-x11- tools. Is it provided by some other rpm?
> 
> 
> You are correct, it's no longer in xorg-x11-toos, also the Changelog says
> it:
> 
> * Thu Nov 11 2004 Kristian Høgsberg <krh at redhat.com>
>   - Removed commented out xbiff, xeyes and xditview files from file
>     lists, they are in CVS if we need them.
> 
> * Mon Aug 23 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 6.7.99.902-6
>   - Remove a bunch of legacy Xaw/Xt applications which really should not be
>     part of X11 sources (xbiff,xditview,xeyes,xmessage)
> 
> So it might be the best to report it on bugzilla... :-) If you really miss
> xeyes.... Or _need_ it...
> 
> Or you build your own RPM.
> 
> Best,
>  Oliver
> 
> 
> 

There was a thread on the fedora-extras list where someone was 
interested in building them for extras.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2005-February/msg00617.html

The thread might explain the status better.

Jim




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