On 06/10/2014 18:55, Tomasz Gajc wrote: > > Yes these are packages b which rely on directfb, most of them can live > without it. My concern is to drop directfb from main and free all > gtk/qt framework from it. > This might be the typical massive package dependecies breakage about removing libraries that might affect the distro. And I'm not sure tha dropping just one library it might semplify the job of developers a lot (maybe on ARM doesn't compile anymore? Then conditionally drop for ARM only). Certainly not having such library it will complicate the job of packagers when they will have to do some backport to something older or stable (think to ROSA or older OMV releases).
Despite what Ubuntu is doing, some other distro, like Mageia5/cauldron is still keeping directfb and they updated to release 1.7.5 for cauldron; OMV and cooker still have directfb 1.6.3. >From the http://www.directfb.org site, it's certainly not an abadonware software or in abandoware state, since their latest news if from late july 2014, so IMHO there is no reason to drop it. So instead of dropping it, I vote about keeping it and even about upgrading it to 1.7.5 or the upcomping 1.8.0. Bye. Giuseppe. _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
