I think the installation process (from Extras) could do with some
polishing, maybe enough to make users never have to use the command
line for yum ( I think I still would use the command line personally) <br>
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Presently, I do not consider FC to be too large, but apperently this may not be the overall perception.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Axel Thimm</b> <<a href="mailto:Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net">
Axel.Thimm@atrpms.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
<br>> IMHO, moving more and more stuff out of Core and into Extras is an<br>> overall good idea, so long as the infrastructure is present in<br>> _advance_ to make it easy to install the stuff that has moved to<br>
> Extras, both at OS install time and later, and without requiring<br>> mandatory network access. ie: Fedora Extras on CD, kindof like<br>> powertools was before, but with anaconda support for that.<br><br>I think this is already the plan for FC6 and the timeframe looks right
<br>to get these parts done.<br><br>But I hope one thing doesn't get lost in this transition: Mark Cox and<br>his team have been checking RHEL and FC only until now (or has this<br>changed?). So currently I know the software on the 5 CDs has been
<br>checked against CVEs rigorously and the security team has taken<br>appropriate measures.<br><br>I think this kind of security infrastructure is needed for moving<br>these targeted 2/3 of Fedora Core to Fedora Extras. I'm afraid that
<br>simply assigning all of Fedora Extras to be checked as good as Fedora<br>Core has been means more human resources which may not be<br>available. So I see three scenarios:<br><br>o packages moved to Fedora Extras are not being checked by Mark Cox
<br> and friends anymore<br><br>o Mark Cox get a lot more coworkers to be able to deal with all<br> packages in Fedora Core and Fedora Extras<br><br>o Fedora Extras is split security-wise into 1st class and 2nd class<br>
citizens.<br><br>From a user's POV I'd wish the second scenario would happen.<br>--<br>Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net<br><br><br>--<br>fedora-devel-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
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