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[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

+ Oliver Burger + oliver.bgr at googlemail.com +
+ Wed Mar 7 11:11:23 CET 2012 +

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Am 07.03.2012 11:05, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
+> Le 07/03/2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+Well, deprecating something usually means:
+"it's still there, but will be removed somewhen in the future.
+So find something else..."
+Doesn't it?
+
+Oliver
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