On 12/06/2012 01:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 22:25 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Matthew Miller (mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
>>> Three things:
>>>
>>> 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size
>>> doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as
well)
>>> is a fine example of something within the distro itself. And, as a
>>> platform for development, offering more version choices to our users
>>> would be a strength.
>>
>> <heretical>
>>
>> Well, then maybe Fedora's too big, and we should move to a model where
>> Fedora is much smaller, and the grand Fedora universe contains things that
>> are packaged *for* one or multiple Fedoras.
>>
>> </heretical>
>
> FWIW (probably not much), I also think this is a great idea. It feels
> strange to me that the same thing contains & manages everything from
> base system (e.g. kernel through core GNOME stack) and add-on apps (say
> Battle for Wesnoth, to pick a relatively obvious example).
>
> Now, there's a bike shed to be painted over where the lines should be drawn.
We could draw them between Core and Extras!
:) Note that just because we got rid of Core doesn't mean that it was a
bad idea. Ubuntu even adopted a "Core" of their own a while back. Maybe
they'll have the same experience we had and get away from that, or maybe
Linux distributions should ultimately not be in the business of
providing all+kitchen sink. Speaking only personally, what I want is a
stable core platform of very limited size against which I can install
other packages and stacks.
Jon.