suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Dimi Paun dimi at lattica.com
Sun Nov 27 16:00:52 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:37 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Are we targeting developers?  Corporate desktop users?  People who
> travel a lot?  People setting up LAMP servers?  Some combination?

AFAICT, there's no particular group of users we target:
  -- FC is mostly for home use
  -- we want to make it useful for laptops
  -- it is the base of RHEL

So it's clearly a combination. For Core to be relevant to people,
it has to be useful out of the box. This rules out the absolute 
minimal Core IMO.

In terms of what goes in, I would think that is should be packages
that are useful to the majority of users in any one segment. This
view would support having in Core apps as diverse as GIMP, Apache,
JOnAS.

One important aspect that seems to be overlooked when we talk about
applications included by default in Core is the message that it sends.
Namely, "a lot of experienced people have looked at alternatives, and
we think that this particular one is the one that's most appropriate
for most people". In other words, we're giving certain applications
more weight then others. 

By moving everything to extras, we lose this message, and that would be
a step back for many people that don't have the time and experience to
decide at every turn between the various options available out there.

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi at lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.




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