[3252] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Dealing with Linux Athena and restricted packages.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Apr 26 22:19:29 2002
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
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Date: 26 Apr 2002 22:19:26 -0400
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This is excellent discussion, and is putting bringing exactly the right
thinking to bear on the issues. Thank you all!
I guess I willfully forgot that we need to keep mwm around for people
with old dotfiles, and that we need to keep Motif libraries around
because lots of our customers, doing what we told them to do, build apps
with the Motif libraries on all Athena UNIX platforms.
So it's pretty clear that we can't eliminate the restricted software,
but we can prune it back.
I just remembered that linux ships stock with a free version of enscript
called nenscript. It may be that we need not trouble ourselves to
replace the other transcript stuff.
We need not solve the whole problem right now -- especially since we're
going to Athena 9.1 beta very soon. The relevant thing to do is answer
the question:
Is there anything we should be doing with the Athena UNIX installer
right now (since we're about to burn new install media that I hope will
not change for a LONG time) up to deal with the current blow-out in
off-campus installs?
-wdc
