On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > J. Fahrner - 06.11.18, 10:21: > > Next step after systemd: Red Hat ends KDE support. > > Gnome will be the only supported dekstop environment. > > As I wrote there, I do not think there is much to see or anything to > really be upset about. I do not believe that the KDE community depends > in any major way on whether RedHat kind of supports KDE or not.
They also ship a lot less software than Debian, requiring people who want important pieces to take them from some random repositories such as EPEL. Just this sort-of-weekend (Nov 1st is a holiday in Poland) I was helping people from old²-work because a customer of theirs insists on CentOS. And needs firebird (the database). They used CentOS with EPEL packages, until suddenly EPEL upgraded firebird to a version that broke compat with the program that firebird is a backend for, in a security upgrade. Not knowing a thing about the RPM world, I had to hunt down some other random derivative that happened to carry required version of firebird. Not fun. So KDE is exactly on the same boat: not in Red Hat proper, you need some random external repository. > Those questionable decisions affect their enterprise customers. But I do > not think they affect the communities in any major way. The less people use Red Hat, the more migrate our way. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Have you heard of the Amber Road? For thousands of years, the ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Romans and co valued amber, hauled through the Europe over the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mountains and along the Vistula, from Gdańsk. To where it came ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ together with silk (judging by today's amber stalls). _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng