Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Dhaval Anjaria]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:17:59PM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> > With the F21 release, they grudgingly let you upgrade with the
> > "nonproduct" option.
>
> I think you're projecting. Command line options do not hold grudges.
>
> > But what happens with F22? Will they Shanghai all us KDE users and
> > force us to switch to GNOME, or else get out of the Fedora
> > community?
>
> No. Why on earth would we want either of those things?
>
> > Where is the option to specify KDE as a Product?
>
> See:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next#What_makes_a_.22product.22.3F
>
> and, older,
>
>
> http://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-present-and-future-a-fedora-next-2014-update-part-ii-whats-happening/
>
> As for upgrading, there's no particular _reason_ to need a KDE-specific
> option at this point, but if in the future the KDE SIG would like to
> increase differentiation from the defaults in a way that would make it
> useful, an option could be added.
>
>
> > I chose KDE for a reason: GNOME is just plain too confusing when it
> > comes to "switching a user." For that reason, and a whole host of
> > pleasant discoveries of how well KDE replicates another environment
> > with which I am familiar, I chose KDE beginning with F12. And I
> > never looked back.
>
> Cool. KDE is great, the Fedora KDE community is awesome, and the Fedora
> KDE spin is top-notch.
>
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> Matthew Miller
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> Fedora Project Leader
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