[fab] fedora slashdot interview

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Thu Aug 3 00:22:35 UTC 2006


Josh Boyer wrote:

>>>
>> Disagree. Sabayon is part of GNOME which is the default desktop 
>> environment for Fedora Core and is very useful software. Red Hat 
>> developing it is just a additional factor.
> 
> And it is no less useful in Extras.  The differentiation between Core
> and Extras along the lines of quality and usefulness needs to stop.  It
> promotes the ideals that Extras is somehow second class and it is most
> certainly not.

Again thats goal but its not the current reality.


> 
> Yes, Red Hat spent effort creating the tools.  That is great.  They
> spend effort doing lots of things that benefit Fedora as a whole.  That
> does not mean that those tools need to automatically be in Core.  Core
> is not about "free advertising" for Red Hat efforts on particular
> packages.

Agreed but this is not a Red Hat tool now. It's part of GNOME and GNOME 
is the default desktop environment. That is a good enough reason to 
include it in core.

Rahul




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