Jonathan Underwood wrote:
It's unfortunate that Core really hasn't opened up to becoming a community based project. A more general issue than just the KDE packages.
I don't think that's directly this issue, the issue is that KDE is being ejected from the warm part of the nest and Gnome isn't. There's no legal reason AFAIK that KDE can't be looked after inside Redhat, Than probably didn't cost THAT much for his time on KDE, given the swollen RHAT coffers, therefore it seems simply a strategic corporate decision to do it (and/or a putsch from the Gnomist Freedom Fighters). If Fedora Core is the technology feeder for RHEL, I guess this represents additionally a weakening or complete loss of commitment to KDE for RHEL, since they would surely keep its packaging inhouse for RHEL. So it's a big fat sign that RHAT regard KDE as on the margins and it's Gnome uber Alles. Last time there was such a signal, many months ago, I tried very hard to use Gnome and after a month or so dumped it for KDE again.
Anyway I don't think there's too much to worry about. The likely case is that some of those 5 CDs we would be downloading as 'core' CDs might now be marked up as containing the same packages from "extras", including the CDs with KDE on them. If Anaconda is hip to it, it will probably not cause much pain.
-Andy
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