On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
I will clearly say that there is not a Red Hat policy to try to move most of the distro out into external repositories; that's been mentioned in several threads on these lists before. We have explicitly stated that our expectation starting this process was that the distro is more likely to grow than to shrink by this process.
For the confused onlookers, get used to the fact that Red Hat employees have different opinions on different stuff. Now the externally visible discussions will no longer be limited to software development, but it'll also happen in on topics such as the distribution and updating ;)
Of course in this case the people who do the work will automagically win any argument. If people want to grow the distribution I am certainly not going to stop them; I like having more stuff as much as the next guy ;)