On Feb 28, 2005, Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> was about building community with grass roots projects. Now it
appears you
> have to have a substantial group of people on a payroll to get into FC
> core.
not true. extras is made up of other people. I am pushing for fc core
Since it just happened twice in a row, I thought I'd point out that fc
core is a misnomer. Fedora is the name of the distro, and it now has
two existing components: Core and Extras. Core is what Red Hat
maintains; Extras is what the community maintains. Unfortunately, the
Core installer still can't get packages from Extras installed, and
most likely won't before FC5.
> What do we have to do to get back into core?
propose it in the fedora extras list.
This wouldn't get it into Core. It would get it into Extras, which,
by FC5's time-frame, would be nearly equivalent. For FC4, it means
you won't be able to get it at install time, and a post-install step
would be required to bring it in. Not a big deal if you're privileged
enough to have a fat net pipe on your Fedora-running box.
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