further package removals/potential package removals
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Jan 24 16:46:28 UTC 2005
On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Stuart Children wrote:
> I see Core as "packages managed mainly by RedHat employees and essential to a
> base [desktop|server] system" (latter is horribly subjective I know), and
> Extras as "packages mainly packaged by non-RedHat employees", with the extra
> requirement that no package in Core should depend on a package in Extras.
> Both are parts of the overall distribution, but Core simply has stricter QC
> and inclusion requirements.
(Ironic or not) since Fedora Extras (at least the fedora.us incarnation)
actually has QA *before* packages are published, IMO, their packaging
quality is at least as good or better than many of those in Core.
--Rex
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