On Sunday 25 June 2006 21:45, Jesse Keating wrote:
I'm continually baffled by the resistance to move things into
Extras.
As a user, why should it matter to you? When you run pup or pirut, can
you really tell what comes from Extras and what comes from Core? As a
developer, this would give you more access to help the development of
said component. How can this be a bad thing? Once we get to the point
where we spin ISO sets that are Core and Extras packages to complete a
theme or goal (Fedora Desktop, Fedora Web Server, Fedora Development,
etc..) then does it _really_ matter if its in Core or Extras? This is
why I said "yet" as we need to get to where "shipped" isos have the
content necessary for that goal of theme.
I agree.
Please, do let me know why there is resistance.
I got the same type of resistance when I asked about gsl.
<rant>
Fedora seems sometime a schizophrenic distribution, sometimes some packages
are updated to the last available stable version, sometimes not.
Note that I am not talking about core packages like glibc, or gcc or others
like it (dbus comes to mind). I understand the reasons for being conservative
here.
In the particular case of gsl the library is mature, the changes are mostly
bugfixes and upstream recommends updating to last version. Why is it only
updated in devel?
</rant>
Now that I said this I feel better. :-) Thank you for listening. ;-)
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Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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José Abílio