alacritty: remove soft dependency xclip #8586
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Since 0.2.8, if `xclip` is missing when copying/pasting text, `alacritty` displays an explicit warning about this.
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Why shouldn't we depend on it in the first place? |
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@jnbr If alacritty depends on xclip, it will change the behavior of other programs having xclip as a soft dependency as well, e.g. neovim. In this case it is easy to provide user choice. |
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xclip is a "soft" dependency for a very important feature (copy-pasting) on the most used graphical server (Xorg) |
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The upstream bug: alacritty/alacritty#5 |
maxice8
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Feb 19, 2019
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Closing. Ultimatively, this bug needs to be fixed upstream. |
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Since 0.2.8, if
xclipis missing when copying/pasting text,alacrittydisplays an explicit warning about this.