Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[Davide Bolcioni]

Benjy Grogan wrote:

> I know this topic has been mentioned over and over, and everyone is 
> irritated by it.  But why not meet the Mono project half-way?  Why can't 
> the hal-sharp and the dbus-sharp, and gtk-sharp add-ons be included in 
> the fedora packages?
> 
> At the moment Fedora seems to want absolutely nothing to do with Mono.

It seems to me you already know the anser to your own question :-)

> Look at it this way, Fedora should try to do the smallest amount 
> possible to embrace Mono.  Make it easier on the repositories that do 
> include Mono, so that if I want to install Beagle or F-Spot, I can leave 
> the system libraries on Fedora alone.

> There are some killer-apps built using Mono.  Fedora should get cheeky 
> and see what they can get away.

Myself, I would welcome equivalents of the above apps NOT using mono 
instead, but that's just me. How many virtual machines and frameworks 
are we supposed to install ?

Davide Bolcioni
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