On Saturday 26 February 2005 15:40, Eric Warnke wrote:
Is it that difficult for RH to maintain contol, but be copied to
extras
for building in Fedora Extras? If this is not already a thread internal
to RH it should be. What is the real and expected deliniation between
FC, FE, RHEL, and RH as a company and the maintainers and community at
large? I understand there are real business issues that forced the
creation of FE, but now the continued push for more community involvment
necessatated by package maintanince and thereby extending FE into FC's
old territory... what's the deal?
When Red Hat stopped doing Red Hat Linux and
started up Fedora Core, my
interpretation of the objectives was that Fedora Core would be testbed for
RHEL and that packages which are part of RHEL would (in almost all cases)
would also be in Fedora Core. However, there will likely be packages in
Fedora Core which are not in RHEL.
Now when there is some kind of transition with packages providing function
(e.g., LPNG and cups), a package may be dropped from a current Fedora Core
while still in the current RHEL ... this would be a "test" to see if the
package could be dropped. A current example might be keeping emacs while
moving xemacs to Fedora Extras. I assume that this is a test to see if the
same can be done with RHEL (remove xemacs from the basic RHEL).
One question that occurs to me is whether there will be something like a RHEL
Extras to add not-so-widely-used packages to the commercial RHEL
distribution.
--
Gene