openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Fri Sep 8 13:15:20 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 09:03 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, it's only the configuration tool that needs Motif, the client can
> > do without.
> 
> If that's the case then it's no great loss, the config utility looks so 
> clunky (due to it's motif-ness) that I only use the rdesktop front-end 
> anyway ...
> 
> But I think the citrix rpm requires something like libmotif.so, or can 
> that simply be dispensed with by a --nodeps?

I've only set the symlink libxm.so.3 -> libXm.so.4 when I needed to use
the configuration program (it needs openmotif 2.2, while I have 2.3
installed).

Nils
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