The main reason not to drop directfb is that there are some users that are using it. I accept that this may not have been presented in an ideal way but nevertheless it is a consideration. Why can you not remove the dependencies from the packages where you think it is redundant for but leave in main. At least this way it will be installed and be useful for people who are stuck with maintaining servers all day, everyday where anything that can help with the lack of high-powered graphical interface. Of course there may be a reason why this is impractical. Best, Colin
Colin Close QA Team On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 21:48:10 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. > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/directfb.git/tree/dead.package > > 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 ? _______________________________________________ OM-Cooker mailing list [email protected] http://ml.openmandriva.org/listinfo.cgi/om-cooker-openmandriva.org
