further package removals/potential package removals

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 22, 2005, Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com> wrote:

> Removing a utility from Core is not going to in any way stop you from
> doing what you need.

Only if the installer actually supports installing from extras as
well, otherwise an upgrade may be impossible, or leave the system in a
broken state.

At which point I really fail to see the point of extras: either it's
part of the distro, or it isn't.  Labeling it as extras just because
it's in a separate CD is useful, because then people can choose which
CDs to download and burn upfront, but it serves no other purpose.

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