openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 31 16:42:17 UTC 2006


Gilboa Davara wrote:

> Considering the fact that packages such as ddd and xpdf are part of
> Core, wouldn't be prudent to push lessif into Core?
> 
> Gilboa

Since Evince and KPDF both use poppler (which is a librarized fork of 
xpdf) is available in core and xpdf being the only major application 
using the motif library, the plan is move the motif/lesstif dependencies 
to extras instead.

Rahul




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