[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 7 March 2012 11:05, Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

Indeed.
I don't care about a few missing ACLs that I can workaround.
startx isn't for beginners anyway...