Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Michael K. Johnson johnsonm at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 14:09:57 UTC 2003


On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:24:46AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm at redhat.com) said: 
> > There's a difference between going out of our way to cater to this
> > use group and not putting artificial barriers in the way.  I'm not
> > saying that we need to build, effectively, two different versions of
> > Fedora Core.  I am saying that we should not take a father-knows-best
> > attitude and put up artificial barriers.  So we shouldn't put lots
> > of work into it, but if something is easy to do to enable technical
> > experimentation with hardware, it's at *least* worth considering.
> 
> Then build an i386 kernel; there, there's something that can be
> done without lots of work. But if you really want to do it right,
> it *will* be lots of work, some of it directly counter to other
> goals of the project.

I want to enable people to play with this.  Yeah, we should build
a real i386 kernel besides BOOT.  We should expose the Core component
under another name.  You keep chasing a straw man and saying things
like "if you really want to do it right" even though I keep telling
you that this is NOT my goal.  I want to enable experimentation.
THAT is consistent with the goals of the project.  Building an i386
kernel and exposing the Core component under another name will not
damage the goals of the project.

And yes, I'm willing to draw a line in the sand and say "we are
not going to trim library dependencies just to make the dependency
set smaller for these kinds of installations".  Does that make you
happier?  :-)

michaelkjohnson

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