what is xanim ? is it still used ?

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mattmatteh · Post by **mattmatteh** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:31 am

what is xanim? i googled and found that it plays animation video and audio. the website shows the last release is march of 1999, over 9 years ago. i assume it would be out dated now. is there anything still using that ? if i remove that package and the use flag, would it be missed ?

matt

koenderoo · Post by **koenderoo** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:38 am

Might be that there are some packages depending on this xanim to function properly.

If you don't have it yet, install the gentoolkit and run

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etcat -d xanim

to figure out if any packages are depending on xanim.

ToeiRei · Post by **ToeiRei** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:43 am

small correction: etcat is dead. correct syntax:

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equery d xanim

larry42 · Post by **larry42** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:48 am

XAnim is a program for playing a wide variety of animation, video and audio formats under X11. Although it was written mainly for machines running Unix(or a Unix derivative), it can also run on VAX VMS machines and has even been compiled and executed on machines running DOS with the proper X11 library support.