>users that are using it But how?
2014-10-08 2:05 GMT+04:00 Colin Close <[email protected]>: > 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 >
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