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>>>>> On 2024-05-11, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>>> On 11.05.2024 um 17:35 Uhr Ivan Shmakov wrote:

 >> A handful of reasons of why X is still relevant this day and age;
 >> and what a replacement (if there will ever be one) will need to
 >> have, or improve upon, to succeed.

 > I think this will be "solved" by simply not shipping X11 anymore
 > in the future.  There are already such ideas.

	I'm mostly familiar with Debian practices.  My understanding
	is that so long as there /is/ a maintainer, /and/ there aren't
	any release-critical bugs in the package, it gets shipped.

	It's certainly possible for current X maintainers to step
	down anytime they want to, but it's equally possible for
	someone to volunteer for the task in their stead.

	I may be mistaken, but my impression is that at least Arch
	and Gentoo are similar to Debian in this respect.

	As for NetBSD, there doesn't seem to be enough people there
	interested in switching to Wayland, so I expect X to be
	maintained there for a while yet.

	Of course, a distribution that's maintained on a for-profit
	basis, would only have the interests of the (majority) of
	their paying customers in mind, and those might or might not
	include continued X11 support.  But that's nothing new.

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why X Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2024-05-11 17:35 +0000
  Re: why X Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-05-11 20:07 +0200
    Re: why X Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2024-05-22 09:25 +0000
      Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-22 22:07 +0000
        Re: why X Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2024-05-23 13:57 +0000
          Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-23 22:00 +0000
            Re: why X Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-05-24 08:47 +0000
  Re: why X not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-15 09:37 +1000
    Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-15 00:48 +0000
      Re: why X not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-16 09:05 +1000
        Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-16 00:06 +0000
          Re: why X Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-05-16 17:18 +1000
    Re: why X Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2024-05-22 08:55 +0000
      Re: why X not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-05-24 09:41 +1000
        Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-24 00:29 +0000
      Re: why X Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-05-24 21:35 +1000
        Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-24 21:37 +0000
  Re: why X Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2024-05-20 06:43 +0000
    Re: why X Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-05-20 07:20 +0000
      Re: why X gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2024-05-22 15:51 +0000
    Re: why X Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-05-20 22:29 +0000
      Re: why X Muttley@dastardlyhq.com - 2024-05-21 07:20 +0000

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