On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:09 +0530, Rahul wrote: > > > > But what is the POINT? We aren't going to be touching openmotif at all, only > > dropping it, so moving it to Extras makes NO SENSE. Moving the things that > > depend on it over so that they can be made to work with lesstif makes some > > sense, for those things that we no longer need in core, but moving openmotif > > just to move it is silly. If we're going to touch openmotif, we're going to > > remove it. period. There is ZERO gain to importing it into Extras. ZERO. > > > > I am repeating myself here but the point is that we never had libraries > in Fedora Core without applications dependent on them and since we are > moving the dependencies I dont see any reason for openmotif to be a > exception and stay in Fedora Core. Again the alternative is to drop > openmotif and all its dependencies in both Fedora Core and Fedora Extras > immediately and fix applications to work with lesstif and import them > back again. Think of it and make a decision either way. Nobody is asking for openmotif to stay in Core. It needs to be dropped, I think everyone agrees on that so far. But it needs to be dropped completely and not moved to Extras. As for the applications that depend on motif, I say we do the following: 1) Announce that openmotif will be dropped in X days, weeks. 2) Provide information o lesstif as the alternative. 3) Maintainers of packages that have motif dependencies have the same X days, or weeks to fix their applications to work with lesstif 4) Drop openmotif after the time period has elapsed 5) Deal with any unfixed packages at that time. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
