bittorrent in core? what frontend?

[Paul Howarth]

Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:22 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>>But on the yet other hand the update may not be available in the yum
>>>repository yet (and may not even be there six months later if it's not
>>>an important update), which will simply frustrate them.
>>
>>Well, as the maintainer of the bittorrent package, at least whilst it's 
>>in Extras, I can assure you that updates won't take anything like 6 
>>months to turn up ;-)
> 
> 
> But not if it's taken into Core. The update may simply be not important
> enough, and the current practice of Core is something like "if it's not
> SECURITY, convince the packager that the update is needed for
> FC$stable" or you won't get an update.

If bittorrent was in Core, it would be quite reasonable for the packager 
to take a different view of whether or not to leave the update 
notification enabled, I agree. But for the time being, it's in Extras 
and I'm inclined to leave it the way it is.

Paul.