How to move package from extras to core ?

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Fri Nov 18 19:28:20 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 20:23 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:02 -0800, Ankit Patel wrote:
> 
> > I think almost 90% of people are satisfied with the default
> > installation of Fedora core. Nobody wants to try new stuffs. So, it's
> > good to provide them directly, then only they realize the importance
> > of the application. That's the only reason i want it to move from
> > extras to core.
> 
> I'd really like to abuse people of the notion that Extras were somehow
> inferior to Core. I think this stems from that Extras packages are only
> installable once the system is running -- if my memory doesn't betray
> me, getting Extras installable directly from anaconda has been
> discussed, have these discussions born any fruit?


Errr....  being overly pedantic here, perhaps, but don't you mean
"disabuse", rather than "abuse" here?

Totally agree with your point though

Dave




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