[CentOS] XScreenSaver

Nicolas Kovacs
Sun, 08 Apr 2018 17:05:55 -0000

Le 08/04/2018 ? 13:54, Nicolas Kovacs a ?crit?:
> As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem.
>
> 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date.
>
> 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup.
>
> 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSaver in my private repo.
>
> Any thoughts about this?

I just got the following response from Jamie Zawinski, the XScreenSaver
developer:

"Yes, your distro sucks, and I wish they would stop redistributing my
software if they refuse to keep it up to date."

He apparently had the same reaction with the Debian guys.

Niki