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Subject: Re: [PATCH] libx11: enable Xcms by default
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On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 11:54 +1000, Jonathan Liu wrote:
> The following do not work if Xcms is not enabled in libx11:
> - starting xterm and doing ls --color / fails to color code the
>   directories:
>   xterm: Cannot allocate color "rgb:5c/5c/ff"
> - xsetroot -solid rgb:5c/5c/ff fails with the following error:
>   xsetroot:  unknown color "rgb:5c/5c/ff"
> - xsetroot -solid rgbi:1.0/1.0/1.0 fails with the following error:
>   xsetroot:  unknown color "rgbi:1.0/1.0/1.0"
> 
> More specifically, applications that pass Xcms color names to
> XParseColor do not work properly.

The comment that you are deleting suggests that this behaviour is by
design:

> -# Let people with incredibly archaic requirements enable Xcms, but disable it by
> -# default.

Since there's already a PACKAGECONFIG option for this, can't you just
enable that in your distro configuration rather than changing the
default?  I don't think it's ever been the expectation that the default
settings will represent "maximum functionality".

p.