openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

Adam Jackson ajackson at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 17:55:14 UTC 2006


Jindrich Novy wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:27 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> Joachim Frieben wrote:
>>> The "tetex-xdvi" package is missing from the list below. Of course, building
>>> against "Openmotif" has always been optional. One would have to revert to
>>> the "X/Athena" widget based interface in order to keep it in "core".
>>> I suppose, moving "tetex" (or its successor) to "extras" was not part of the
>>> agenda ...
>> In the longer term I would very much like to move libXaw (and Xaw3d) to 
>> extras as well.
> 
> So I hope teTeX will be in Extras as well in that time, because the only
> remaining Athena - libXaw alternative: neXtaw is not in Core but in
> Extras already.

That would be a prerequisite for removing Xaw from Core, yes.  I admit 
unfamiliarity with the TeX stack; is there a viable gtk replacement for 
teTeX?

- ajax




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