On 7 March 2012 11:05, Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
Indeed. I don't care about a few missing ACLs that I can workaround. startx isn't for beginners anyway...
