Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2016-07-10 08:59:59) > On 07/10/2016 08:39 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > I found > > http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2016/02/the-first-two-x-apps-are-ready/, > > which makes things clearer. This seems to be a cross-desktop (Mate, > > Cinnamon... XFCE?) project to provide some core apps. Which we > > wouldn't end up with multiple forks of the same stuff, and that > > addresses my concerns. > > Yep, same concern here. I'm on the MATE packaging team and I am > strongly against packaging any of these X apps. They don't bring any > benefit really, any of the existing applications they are forking run > perfectly fine on any desktop that Debian offers. > > I also fear additional work load for the security team if multiple > instances of the same media player have to be taken care of.
I don't follow how it is "same concern": As I understand the blog post, the very purpose of X-Apps is to be desktop-agnostic. Do you consider pluma well suited as a desktop-agnostic editor? It currently links against libmate-desktop-2-17 and mate-desktop-common which seems not agnostic to me. I agree that if there are no real difference between programs tied to specific desktops and not tied to specific desktops, then we should maintain only one of them - but in my opinion it then makes better sense to maintain those *not* tied to MATE or any other desktop. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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