On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Stephen Isard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Can anyone explain why the fvwm window manager has been dropped in SL5?
> I've searched and found no discussion apart from a remark at
> http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/technisches_seminar/texte/sl3z.pdf that "we
> probably can't fight UTF-8 any longer".  However, fvwm 2.5 claims "full
> internationalization" and the man page makes a number of references to
> utf-8, so that doesn't appear to be a complete explanation.
>
> The tar file from the fvwm site compiles with no problems and runs as it
> always has, as far as I can see.
>

fvwm was dropped from RHEL most likely due to the usual: number of
users versus complexity of support. The numbers of using fvwm is much
smaller than their core market and so dealing with support issues with
it has a higher cost. The fact that the SL people are a smaller group
means that the packages that they chose to add beyond the core need to
fit their 'mission'.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"