Mono, Just Say No
An interesting post and comments on Mether’s blog about Banshee and F-Spot depending on Moonlight.
Personally I would rather see Mono and apps that depend on it disappear from Fedora and not come back. The Moonlight dependency is another example of the rather grey area this whole Mono thing is venturing into. And at some point enough is enough and the powers that be should just pull the plug on it. If you still want to make Mono available then stick it in RPMFusion.org. Or perhaps the RPMs could be offerend from a yum repo at the Mono website.
Why do we even need Mono and Mono based apps? To replace Tomboy there’s GNote that gets better every day and is part of Gnome. To replace F-Spot there are a number of apps like Digikam, Fotoxx and Solang. Really, why would I possibly want an app that’s not part of the Gnome familiy, requires a massive amount of external libs, is or may be patent encumbered and which development team is led by someone who’s judgement seems rather clouded by his love and admiration for the Beast from Redmond.
Mono, just say no.