On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 4:50 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM Ben Cotton <bcotton(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS
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> == Summary ==
> Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on
> platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not
> removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those
> platforms. This is a first step toward eventually removing legacy
> BIOS support entirely.
I personally find the wording here extremely confusing, to the point
where it might be classified as misleading.
Usually, to "deprecate" something means that users get a grace period
where they will be warned that the thing they're using will go away at
some point in the future, and that it should no longer be used, if
possible.
Yes, the word deprecate needs to be removed.
The reason why it's not worth arguing about is because there's no
argument to be made for using this term. It's simply incorrect both in
terms of etymology, but also how it gets used in the industry.
Deprecation means "to express disapproval of" that's it. A circle is
not a square, and saying it's not worth arguing about is absolutely
true because no one can argue they're equivalent, even approximately.
--
Chris Murphy