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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx</H1>
<B>Thierry Vignaud</B>
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<I>Wed Mar 7 11:08:56 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 7 March 2012 11:05, Guillaume Rousse <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">guillomovitch at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
>><i> Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before
</I>>><i> mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be
</I>>><i> used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not
</I>>><i> be available).
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</I>>><i> See this comment (and the link therein) for more info on the issue:
</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4652#c9">https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4652#c9</A>
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</I>><i> What is the operational translation of 'deprecating support of foo' ?
</I>><i> automatic answer "no support" to any user reporting issue with it ? removing
</I>><i> it from the distribution ?
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</I>><i> While I don't care about the first one, I do care about the second
</I>><i> interpretation. Given the very high fragility of the gnome environment
</I>><i> nowadays, using old-days tools to workaround those various issues is
</I>><i> frequently useful.
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Indeed.
I don't care about a few missing ACLs that I can workaround.
startx isn't for beginners anyway...
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