On 07/10/2014 21:48, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote: > Dnia wtorek, 7 października 2014 19:26:36 Giuseppe Ghibò pisze: > >> 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. > Sure why not, but what are the benefits ? > OMV does not even use directfb, same goes to mageia. There is no real use for > this library in our environment. > > Fedora retired completely directfb more than a year ago, because maintainer > of > this package gave up on extra work of keepin in shape some external kernel > modules to get that directfb to work. And such a module can't be added to the current kernel package? > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/directfb.git/tree/dead.package Arch Linux sound is having directfb-1.7.5 too. Suse too (their package is called DirectFB). > > In our case we do not even have a maintainer for this directfb package, we > are > not even sure if this piece of software works like it is supposed to work. > Why > blindly stick to something that is not even used anywhere in omv environment ? blind backward compatibility? But in a car were some screws are not supposed to know how exactly they works, but are there, one remove them? ;-)
Bye. Giuseppe. _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
