One of fedora's key values is to be leading the way on stuff like this, so it's not surprising that other major distros aren't quite caught up just yet[0] (alth

One of fedora's key values is to be leading the way on stuff like this, so it's not surprising that other major distros aren't quite caught up just yet[0] (although I think for this particular one, debian won't be far behind). That said, I do wonder if this change is going to break more things for end users than they really bargained for. It reminds me a little of the Pulseaudio introduction - where in the haste to ship the new shiny ASAP, they ended up shipping a distro where a huge percentage of users never really got properly working sound. In this case, I'm worried that they underestimate the amount of stuff that users depend on but aren't included in the distro, and that many of these will break. Thinking of stuff like dropbox, the nvidia drivers, skype, etc. I'm not certain that in retrospect this will be shown to be one of FESCo's better rulings, and that they would have done better to give companies like nvidia, microsoft and dropbox more time to adapt. But time will tell. 0: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundations