Re: [fab] Re: openmotif

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 18:09 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> > 
> > But what is the POINT?  We aren't going to be touching openmotif at all, only 
> > dropping it, so moving it to Extras makes NO SENSE.  Moving the things that 
> > depend on it over so that they can be made to work with lesstif makes some 
> > sense, for those things that we no longer need in core, but moving openmotif 
> > just to move it is silly.  If we're going to touch openmotif, we're going to 
> > remove it.  period.  There is ZERO gain to importing it into Extras.  ZERO.
> > 
> 
> I am repeating myself here but the point is that we never had libraries 
> in Fedora Core without applications dependent on them and since we are 
> moving the dependencies  I dont see any reason for openmotif to be a 
> exception and stay in Fedora Core.  Again the alternative is to drop 
> openmotif and all its dependencies in both Fedora Core and Fedora Extras 
> immediately and fix applications to work with lesstif and import them 
> back again. Think of it and make a decision either way.

Nobody is asking for openmotif to stay in Core.  It needs to be dropped,
I think everyone agrees on that so far.  But it needs to be dropped
completely and not moved to Extras.

As for the applications that depend on motif, I say we do the following:

1) Announce that openmotif will be dropped in X days, weeks.
2) Provide information o lesstif as the alternative.
3) Maintainers of packages that have motif dependencies have the same X
days, or weeks to fix their applications to work with lesstif
4) Drop openmotif after the time period has elapsed
5) Deal with any unfixed packages at that time.

josh