This is a fair argument. I think mpg321 being the issue it is makes people want to justify reasons for doing something. I believe the comment was "mostly servers", so the effect would be midigated. But I don't want to see us pulling KDE, gnome or X either, even though I don't use them as workstations. -- Christian Pearce http://www.commnav.com Troy Dawson said: > > Warren Togami wrote: > ... > > I personally feel that removing mpg321 or crippling its functionality in > > Legacy is not much of a loss, since the majority of Legacy users are > > servers. Maybe some businesses use Legacy for workstations, but think > > of a broken MP3 decoder as productivity gain? =) > ... > > I have some problems with this attitude. > Why? > First, because many of our systems are NOT servers. We have a very high > percentage of experimentors that are running 7.3 on desktops. > Second, once you start walking down that path of 'servers only' then anything > is fair game. KDE will go out, alot of gnome too, shoot, eventually X since > you don't really need X for web or mail servers. > > Now, if we have license issues, that's fine. I'll just find and/or make the > patches elsewhere. Though it would be good to have a list somewhere that says > which one's we can't do because of this problem. > If we also don't feel the security problem is bad enough to warrent the time > it takes, I have no problem there either. > > I just don't wnat to see Fedora-legacy be for 'servers only' > > Thanks > Troy > -- > __________________________________________________ > Troy Dawson dawson@xxxxxxxx (630)840-6468 > Fermilab ComputingDivision/CSS CSI Group > __________________________________________________ > > > -- > > fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list >
