'Twas brillig, and Wolfgang Bornath at 07/03/12 10:13 did gyre and gimble: > 2012/3/7 Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]>: >> Le 07/03/2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie a écrit : >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 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. > > Different from Guillaume I do care about the impact for the user. > There are many out there who are used to startx and also docs and > howtos which use it. Therefore we will need an explanation for > switching off startx. An explanation to be used in forums, which is a > bit more than just a link to a bug report. In other words: to be > understood by non-techie users.
To answer Guillaume's question, I wasn't personally planning on removing it fully. Just documenting that it is broken and that users should not use this as a mechanism for starting X. I would propose just putting in "echo 'startx is deprecated. Here is why..... Press any key to continue anyway.' >&2; read -n 1" in the startx script such that users using it will be warned. Does this seem sensible? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
