I think it's accurate that Red Hat would like to be maintaining
fewer
packages and focusing more on the basics, but at the same time I don't
know why people are so terrified of that. It will probably make both the
basics and the non-basics higher quality to do this since there's more
focus on each one.
Until infrastructure is in place, development in FC-extras will be slower
than in Fedora Core. Maybe the current way to push the FC-extra resolves this,
but I fear lots of additional work for package maintainers.
greetings,
Florian La Roche