What is the motivation for including Mono in Core?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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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