Re: kde in extras - the devel discussion

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Gilboa Davara wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:34 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Mike Cohler wrote:
>> 
>> > I see that there is a long thread in fedora-devel about whether to
>> > push KDE out into extras. There are a lot of people out there (Linus T
>> > for one !) who feel that KDE should be part of the OS.
>> 
>> What makes you think Extras is not a part of the OS?   Hint: it is. 
>> There's been a *lot* of work in anaconda to support non-core repositories
>> at install-time...

> The only problem I see with moving semi-core packages into extra is the
> lack of CD/DVD version of Extra at release time.
> Would it be possible to -officially- master a KDE/FCn/Extra iso snapshot
> when-ever a core is released and make it broadly available? (Mirrors,
> bittorrent, etc... just as it was a normal core CD?)

Yes, work is being done in that area as well.  We'll hopefully see the
fruits of these labors within the fc6 time-frame.

-- Rex


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