openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 09:01 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
> > The hard decision has been made that openmotif will be removed from
> > Fedora and the current plan is to make this happen by October 2, 2006,
> > the final development freeze for Fedora Core 6.
> 
> I appreciate the reasons for this, but I think it's correct to say that 
> the Citrix ICA client requires motif, obviously this is outside the 
> scope of Fedora, but just a heads-up to those who use rdesktop/ica from 
> linux desktops to windows servers ...

AFAIK, it's only the configuration tool that needs Motif, the client can
do without.

Nils
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