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[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

+ Thierry Vignaud + thierry.vignaud at gmail.com +
+ Wed Mar 7 11:08:56 CET 2012 +

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On 7 March 2012 11:05, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+>> Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before
+>> mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be
+>> used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not
+>> be available).
+>>
+>> See this comment (and the link therein) for more info on the issue:
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4652#c9
+>
+> What is the operational translation of 'deprecating support of foo' ?
+> automatic answer "no support" to any user reporting issue with it ? removing
+> it from the distribution ?
+>
+> While I don't care about the first one, I do care about the second
+> interpretation. Given the very high fragility of the gnome environment
+> nowadays, using old-days tools to workaround those various issues is
+> frequently useful.
+
+Indeed.
+I don't care about a few missing ACLs that I can workaround.
+startx isn't for beginners anyway...
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