openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Rahul]

Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>> -------------------
>> For reference, a copy of this posting as well as any updates on this
>> topic are available at
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RexDieter/openmotif
>> -------------------
>>
>> Per discussion on the Fedora Advisory Board mailing list, openmotif
>> currently does not meet Fedora's licensing requirements.  The openmotif
>> developers have been contacted, but it appears openmotif's licensing
>> will not be changing soon.
>>
>> The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from
>> Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006,
>> the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.
>>
>> Currently, the following packages in Core and Extras contain runtime or
>> build time dependencies on openmotif:
>>  * cmucl
>>  * ddd
>>  * geomview
>>  * gpsd
>>  * grace
>>  * Inventor
>>  * mesa-libGLw
>>  * nedit
>>  * xlockmore
>>  * xpdf
>>
>> Maintainers need to update their packages to use another motif
>> implementation, lesstif (in Extras). It is not 100% ABI-compatible (and
>> provides a different shared library soname), but all that should be
>> required for most motif-dependent applications is changing
>>
>> BuildRequires: openmotif-devel
>> to
>> BuildRequires: lesstif-devel
>>
>> and rebuilding/recompiling.
>>
> 
> since lesstif is in extras does this mean that all those packages will
> be moving to extras?
> 

The above list includes both core and extras packages and all the 
lesstif/motif dependencies in core would move out to extras.

Rahul