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From: khera@juliet.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: what i want in R5
Keywords: xhost,fixed paths
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Date: 5 Jul 90 16:17:59 GMT
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I would like to see the following in the next release of X11:

1. a better mechanism than xhost for security. a per-user list would
   be perfect, allowing the list to be used as a kerberos access
   control list if kerberos was available.  if not available, then it
   could be used similarly to the current host list.  i am attempting
   to implement something like this presently.

2. remove the need to install X in /usr/*/X11.  some of us have to
   keep other versions around for various reasons, and forcing the
   location is inconvenient at best.  the directory should be
   completely configuration file dependent.  i have had to directly
   modify several source files to change the location, as well as
   specify it in the config files.  along the same lines, in the
   makedepend program, the gcc-include directory should not be
   hard-coded, but also specified in a config file.  not everyone
   installs gcc in /usr/local (we install it in /usr/gnu.)
   at the very least, these changes should be documented with the
   installation notes, not just as an errata sheet that everyone may
   not get.

3. there should be some way to determine which release a particular
   vendor's X implementation is based on.  for example, i write a
   client that must run on a release 4 server.  how can i tell if a
   particular vendor's X server supports release 4 or not?  i can't
   very well have a table of all vendor names and release numbers to
   check against.

								vick.
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