On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 22:11:20 -0400, you wrote:
I suggest to this community that we have arrived at a crisis. In six
years, according to /The Register/, Red Hat Enterprise Linux /will not
support/ a KDE installation or maintenance.
I would argue that this is a benefit to KDE on RHEL.
The Desktop enviornment is really inherently unsuited to the long term
unchanging RHEL (or LTS from others) where the changes year to year
are simply too significant to allow a 4+ year old installation to
remain relevant.
By removing KDE from RHEL 8 this makes it easier for somone like the
Fedora KDE group to provide KDE in a form that remains relevant
through the lifecycle of RHEL 8. Unless a company using RHEL really,
really wants that Desktop support they may well find the KDE option
(perhaps on a more corporate friendly 12 month cycle instead of the
Fedora 6 month, who knows) to be a better option than the Gnome
installation that will at some point become hopelessly out of date.