{"id":4146,"date":"2021-04-01T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2021-10-08T08:27:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T08:27:04","slug":"emergency-updates-about-the-direction-of-mageia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2021\/04\/01\/emergency-updates-about-the-direction-of-mageia\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Updates about the direction of Mageia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warning: this post is a joke of 1st April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM package<br \/>format, which we&#8217;ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee has<br \/>approved the switch to Debian package manager, apt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will rebuild Cauldron to adopt the .deb package to have it in place<br \/>for Mageia 9.<br \/>We will also adopt the Arch Installer, ditch Mageia Control<br \/>Centre for raw conf files, and will also suppress urpm, rpm, dnf, pagure, iurt and mock.<br \/>Infra will be migrated to a fork of Debian build system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also will focus on releasing CDE Desktop as the only supported<br \/>desktop environment. With support for all other desktop<br \/>environments and window managers like Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, mate,<br \/>cinnamon, lxqt, lxde, awesome, e17 and fwvm being removed from Mageia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full details available on the Mageia wiki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Existing installations will be migrated automatically to the new and improved<sup>TM<\/sup> Magebian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are so excited about the challenge to bring you a robust rolling<br \/>release distribution and will provide a preview next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for joining us in welcoming in Spring\/Autumn on the 1st of April, see you again next year, happy April Fools Day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Regards,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicolas L. neoclust<br \/>Aur\u00e9lien O. auroud85<br \/>Pascal V. maat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: this post is a joke of 1st April. Considering the complete lack of bugs in urpm and in the RPM packageformat, which we&#8217;ve grown tired of, The Executive Committee hasapproved the switch to Debian package manager, apt. 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