Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mono in the default install

[Sam Geeraerts]

Richard Stallman schreef:
> The best way to encourage people to do the last 5% of the work
> to get non-C# applications packaged and installed
> is to refuse to put in the C# applications that have such equivalents.
>
> That way, the people who want either such a program included
> have a reason to help finish and package the non-C# program.

The people who have those skills also know about repositories and how to 
install/remove software, so not including those programs wouldn't 
encourage them (much). Non-technical users would judge the distribution 
by the live CD (and then by the default installation). Features that 
seem to be missing compared to other distributions for reasons other 
than the programs being non-free software would impact their judgment 
and the adoption of gNewSense negatively.

Your concerns about C# are probably valid, but I think the matter is not 
so urgent that it justifies simply removing the applications. I'm sure 
it won't take long before we have the patches to replace the 
applications (probably before our next release, which would make it a 
non-issue).