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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 14:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> > One could argue that Xorg and fvmw2 are all that's needed for Core.
> > Minimalistic to the bone.
> 
> no. fvwm2 is not a typical DE.
X+fvwm2 had been the Linux standard desktop environment for many, many
years and is still being used by more folks that you might assume.

Some *nix-purists won't use want any other environment.

> extras can be packaged as a ISO image. you need to download the whole
> of fedora or buy it from a third party vendor. if fedora extras or a
> subset of it  is an ISO image, then moving KDE into extras is just
> better reorganisation.
Despite some folke here don't seem to get tired to reiterate this idea,
I have to object: That won't be better, It's naive to move KDE out of
Core.

Ralf