Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:01:14AM -0500, Benjy Grogan wrote:
> 
>    Hello:


>    At the moment Fedora seems to want absolutely nothing to do with Mono.  Why
>    not try to go a little farther and include mono interfaces to dbus, hal,
>    gnome, etc.  This means that if someone does install Mono then all the
>    system libraries are ready to do some C# programming.  And if a user doesn't
>    install Mono, then the interfaces will lie there useless.

Aside from the legal issues (which others have addressed in this
thread), because they then "will lie there useless." I don't want
something on my computer unless I'm going to use it.

I resent that, e.g, I have to have CD burning software on any computer
on which I run Gnome, whether the box has a burner on it or not.

Aside from the aesthetic of wasting hard drive space, there's also the
practical fact that if it isn't there, the bad guys can't crack
it. This is essential for, e.g. firewalls.

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