Rex Dieter wrote: > ------------------- > For reference, a copy of this posting as well as any updates on this > topic are available at > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif > ------------------- > > Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif > currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements. The openmotif > developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing > will not be changing soon. > > The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from > Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006, > the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6. > > Currently, the following packages in Core and Extras contain runtime or > build time dependencies on openmotif: > * cmucl > * ddd > * geomview > * gpsd > * grace > * Inventor > * mesa-libGLw > * nedit > * xlockmore > * xpdf > > Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif > implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and > provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be > required for most motif-dependent applications is changing > > BuildRequires: openmotif-devel > to > BuildRequires: lesstif-devel > > and rebuilding/recompiling. > since lesstif is in extras does this mean that all those packages will be moving to extras? Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
