[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/3/7 Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Different from Guillaume I do care about the impact for the user.
There are many out there who are used to startx and also docs and
howtos which use it. Therefore we will need an explanation for
switching off startx.  An explanation to be used in forums, which is a
bit more than just a link to a bug report. In other words: to be
understood by non-techie users.

-- 
wobo