Comments on: Real-time Linux Hacker Bill Huey Called the Mono Plan “Misguided” http://techrights.org/2009/06/12/mono-vs-java-video/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Will http://techrights.org/2009/06/12/mono-vs-java-video/comment-page-1/#comment-66149 Will Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:17:50 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=12958#comment-66149 Last I checked, even the venerable emacs doesn't make it into the default Ubuntu installation, so there's certainly no badge of shame moving mono stuff back into the repositories as an optional download. Actually, that might be a good thing. If Mono applications are as hot as some would like us to believe, then we should still see people flocking to download them after installation, right? But about this mono stuff in Ubuntu, for example the Banshee controversy, if the Banshee push succeeds, does that mean that Banshee will be merely a default included app that can be easily removed, or will it then somehow become a dependency of ubuntu-desktop or some other metapackage that will cause its absence to make things more difficult come upgrade time? Last I checked, even the venerable emacs doesn’t make it into the default Ubuntu installation, so there’s certainly no badge of shame moving mono stuff back into the repositories as an optional download. Actually, that might be a good thing. If Mono applications are as hot as some would like us to believe, then we should still see people flocking to download them after installation, right?

But about this mono stuff in Ubuntu, for example the Banshee controversy, if the Banshee push succeeds, does that mean that Banshee will be merely a default included app that can be easily removed, or will it then somehow become a dependency of ubuntu-desktop or some other metapackage that will cause its absence to make things more difficult come upgrade time?

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