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Hello Maurice.

06 Jan 06 16:47, you wrote to me:

 MK> Wow!  X is definetly worth compiling.  Same with the xine although I
 MK> noticed it suffers from the same misconception about cflags as some
 MK> other apps and libs and I didn't feel like doing anything about it at
 MK> the moment.  I figure on writing a perl script in the near future to
 MK> scan all makefiles for unwanted flags and replace them is overdue.
 MK> However I am still in experimental mode as far as dependancies are
 MK> concerned and thus haven't bothered ... yet.  For sure everything is
 MK> in sync with the tv card so I am more or less happy with that and am
 MK> going to see if I can get fbtv to cooperate with this scheme.  I still
 MK> prefer xawtv as far as handling vt switching on a framebuffered
 MK> console.  fbxine is nice as well as mplayer with the '-vo mga' switch.
 MK> Could be better.  Needs work.

X has it's good points, and well Gentoo is around, simply because most apps 
can be "optimized" to some degree ... 

 MK> Anyhow good stuff happening.

Good, nice to know ...

 MK> No gtk either!!!  :-)

Fine, if there is no need for, then no complaints ...

Russell