What is the motivation for including Mono in Core?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Jan 10 14:21:32 UTC 2006
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I just noticed this Slashdot post (
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/10/139255&tid=131&tid=106
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/10/139255&tid=131&tid=106>
> ) which pointed to this blog post ( http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/?p=159
> ). I know very little about Mono. And it is my current, but ignorant,
> understanding that this contreversial package is being put into Core
> for the sake of a few Gnome applications.
>
> I can understand to each their own DE. But I hope this will not come
> to the disadvantage of us already argueably disadvantaged FC-KDE users.
>
> Am I totally misunderstanding this all, please explain.
Fedora Core includes both GNOME and KDE related packages. KDE users can
simply choose to ignore whatever GNOME packages they dont pretty easily
during or post-installation, so I dont believe its a disadvantage. Mono
by itself isnt inherently tied to GNOME. KDE and Qt bindings are available.
--
Rahul
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