Hi, On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2010/5/29 Ross Burton <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 03:59 +0300, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: > >> The current default application set does not need Mono for anything, > >> so Mono is also not installed as default. > > > > IIRC, Fedora switched from Tomboy to GNote so that Mono could be dropped > > from the default install, meaning that you can do it from a single CD. > > The move from tomboy to gnote was to help reduce the size of the > livecd which is always bloating out above a standard CD size. Its a > constant battle to keep it with the constraint. > Mono is indeed in Fedora repos. If it was considered a problem it wouldn't be included in Fedora official repos. However it should be noticed that eventhough Fedora is not avoiding Mono, they are trying to make the default installation independent of Mono. For example they replaced Tomboy with Gnote in F12 and in F13 finally they removed the dependency by replacing F-Spot with Shotwell. In a summery, eventhough Fedora is ok with Mono for now they are not particularly depending on it for any part of their default package set. AFAIK, this is due to the ambiguity in legal status and future. Status of Mono in Fedora might change or might not. However for MeeGo, including Mono in the base install is a decision to be made on our own as a project, I believe. I don't believe there's a Novell/Mono secret agenda as it was made to sound like in a recent post to the list. Novell guys aren't just contributing to Mono related projects only. A good example is the Evolution and the new Express UI. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > -- Gaveen Prabhasara
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