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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:05:01 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Subject:   Re: Providing a default graphical environment on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <63507.1347905101@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:53:40 EST." <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB%2BfO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com>

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In message <CAGsORuBqiodwt_EmVqB+fO=tgOVeZOERopSE2y=mLa8Jp6ZOjQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Zhihao Yuan writes:

>Well, let's make it more straightforward. I hope people can agree with
>this: a default, officially supported modern desktop environment is
>essential to FreeBSD.

No, it is not.

It would certainly be nice to have as an option, but I would hate
to have to deal with it, when I squeeze FreeBSD into embedded systems
which have neither graphics outputs nor keyboard or mouse inputs.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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