On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Stephen Isard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone explain why the fvwm window manager has been dropped in SL5? > I've searched and found no discussion apart from a remark at > http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/technisches_seminar/texte/sl3z.pdf that "we > probably can't fight UTF-8 any longer". However, fvwm 2.5 claims "full > internationalization" and the man page makes a number of references to > utf-8, so that doesn't appear to be a complete explanation. > > The tar file from the fvwm site compiles with no problems and runs as it > always has, as far as I can see. >
fvwm was dropped from RHEL most likely due to the usual: number of users versus complexity of support. The numbers of using fvwm is much smaller than their core market and so dealing with support issues with it has a higher cost. The fact that the SL people are a smaller group means that the packages that they chose to add beyond the core need to fit their 'mission'. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
