Olivier Galibert wrote:
What is the current target of Core? Right now it looks like there is
a push to limit it to the needs of the "home desktop/laptop,
gnome-desktop only, office tools, no cli" crowd. The windows desktop
crowd, in other words. Everybody else has to go hit extras. Is that
by design, or does it just happen?
See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CoreVsExtras for the original idea.
Maybe the core/extras distinction should go away, to be replaced by
a
"make your own core" system. I have the starts of one, but it would
require a lot of work still. There could be lists of packages for for
instance:
- base
- gnome desktop
- kde desktop
- other wm/desktops
- legagy X11 apps
- TeX
- parallel/distributed processing
etc...
And then you "just" need some tools to build a repository or an iso
from a bunch of such lists. Fedora could easily promote a particular
configuration of lists as a "release" and create isos for that one, or
The distribution composing tool that is designed to do this is pungi
http://jkeating.livejournal.com/32250.html
even give a number of choices (gnome desktop, kde desktop,
server...).
That would help remove the second class citizen stain that is
currently plagueing extras.
I suspect one big problem would be merging the mirroring for core and
extras into something common, but larger.
See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit for the current plans.
Rahul