Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
Making Fedora Extras a very tiny "outer" core of library packages and notThere's been a lot of discussion about this. The points the page makes are real, and declaring their answer "Microsoft-ish" isn't constructive. Do you have an alternate *solution*?
I do recognize their points, but unfortunately you have failed to recognize mine. In case you didn't notice, my message did point out an alternate *solution*.
try to provide a wide base of packages that all work nicely together? That's
more "dropping having Fedora Extras" than it is solving the problem of
repository conflicts.
Uh, no it isn't. (To go with my previous example) where I get one version of Xine vs. some different version Xine doesn't really matter because other packages aren't dependent on it. However, all of the underlying libraries are carried by multiple repositories and they are used by multiple programs. If Fedora Core does not have any applications using those libraries (or other programs that have dependencies but they aren't really used in Fedora Core), then obviously they should not be a part of Fedora Core, and thus those are the types of things that Fedora Extras should carry. Anything more would become some nightmare of a too big community, like the Roman Empire.
---- Peace, William
