On 6/6/06, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler@xxxxxxxxx> 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. I would hate to see KDE pushed out of the core. What do you think ? mike cohler
HOLD UP - WAIT A MINUTE I leave you guys for a day or so and this is what happens? I come today checking the fedora-devel list and I see a thread discussing KDE to extras. Come to fedora-general, same thread but longer. Come on guys. It hurt enough when they moved XFCE to extras - the reasoning then was that few people used it, thought it was great to have on server type machines. There are already a mirad of "free" and "non-free" packages that at least I _need_ to install to make my Fedora desktop installtion complete, adding KDE to that list is just, well that hurts. That leaves me with only the community of Fedora to like. And for those who say that Extras is not a second class citizen, then what is Extras in the absence of an internet connection? I think Extras is great, and has a lot of stuff but guys really. There are many gnome dependencies that should be looked at long before exiling KDE from Core. Last FC5 install, I uncheck Gnome, and checked KDE, but I still have the entire gnome-desktop package and nautilus installed. If this is really the direction Fedora is taking, please make a general announcement and let us all know. Peace to all. -- To be updated...
