rawhide report: 20051221 changes - X server removed
David Malcolm
dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Dec 21 20:23:15 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:03 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > mharris at mharris.ca ("Mike A. Harris") writes:
> >
> >
> >>Yeah, after much debate, we decided to move X into Fedora Extras instead
> >>of keeping it in core. However, everyone is going on holidays for 2
> >>weeks, so it wont show up in Extras probably until mid January or so.
> >>
> >>As an interim workaround, the Linux console can be pretty handy at
> >>times though.
> >
> >
> > Nice to hear. Should solve the one-installation CD problem. And with
> > some optimisations (go back to gcc-2.7 and libc5), we can solve the
> > live-diskette problem too.
>
> That's actually not planned to happen until FC6, as the a.out
> support is a bit too rough around the edges currently. Also,
> it's dependent on features in the 1.2.14 kernel which hasn't
> yet been released. (DRM integration issues, etc.)
Isn't the plan to move the kernel to Extras?
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