[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Guillaume Rousse guillomovitch at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 11:05:22 CET 2012


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.

-- 
Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support
		-- Murphy's Military Laws n°71


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