Ralf Corsepius wrote: > 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. I take it, then, you don't have much faith in Extras *at all*. The same argument can be made against everything in Extras. >> > 3. It would close out RH from a technology >> IMO, simply being in Extras != "close out RH from a technology" > 1. RH != Fedora !!! true! Which puzzles me why you mentioned it, because it appears to weaken the original assertion even more. > 2. There are no FE CDs. Coming soon! (Or at least a method to create customizable Fedora installation media using your choice of bits from Core+Extras). > 3. anaconda is meaningless rpm-wise. I don't follow here. -- Rex
