Dependencies on external dead projects

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2008/2/14, Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com>:
>>  IMHO, the optimal solution would be to drop xfce4-tips and xfprint (and disable printing in Mousepad - removing a non-working menu option is never a regression).
> 
> My mousepad branch (nick_0_3) uses the gtk print backend and will
> replace the mousepad shipped in 4.4. So that problem is fixed for 4.6.

Many thanks!

> If we want to ship xfprint in 4.6 is not my business, but i don't
> think it necessarily needed.

At least, there seems to be no other users of its text-to-postscript converter 
inside Xfce itself.

> Xfce4-tips just needs to be fixed: ie. display our tips without the
> dependency on fortune. That not very hard to do, but as always,
> shouting at other people is one thing, helping them the other one...

I see. Unfortunately, during the next week I have to go to a semiconductor 
conference, so this has to wait a bit.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov