On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 08:45 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:26 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > > >> 1. Extras really should not be regarded as a "second class citizen" to > >> Core in the first place, and > > > I wouldn't be sure. Though I on one hand agree that RH's work on KDE has > > not been a "proof of exellence", on the other hand, I think, a couple of > > overly ambitious KDE hackers in Extras could be harmful. > > > >> 2. It would be maintained in Extras by the same people that brought you > >> the kde-redhat project, so you'd probably get better-packaged, more up > >> to date releases than is currently possible in Core. > > C.f. my comment to 1) above. > > I'd hope such a large maintainership burden would be done by a team, which > certainly would include rh's current kde maintainer. IMO, it's only a matter of time until somebody will screw KDE and nobody will feel responsible - Up to now we all had RH's KDE maintainer to blame, but then we won't have him. Also, experience with community maintained KDEs, so far, even on SuSE have not been compelling. I think this simply is too complex and large to be coordinated by a "community team". > > 3. It would close out RH from a technology > > IMO, simply being in Extras != "close out RH from a technology" 1. RH != Fedora !!! 2. There are no FE CDs. 3. anaconda is meaningless rpm-wise. > > 4. It would close out KDE apps from Core. > True. OK, when will Linus T. start to write his new kernel configuration GUI in KDE? Which GUI will SuSE's new "proprietary module loader have". When will yum have a usable Gtk/GNOME GUI? Ralf
