[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

[Oliver Burger]

Am 07.03.2012 11:05, schrieb Guillaume Rousse:
> 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.
>
Well, deprecating something usually means:
"it's still there, but will be removed somewhen in the future.
So find something else..."
Doesn't it?

Oliver