fc5 goals

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:44 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lundi 28 novembre 2005 à 14:15 -0800, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> 
> > The question is why are these pieces of software in Fedora CORE vs
> > Fedora EXTRAS.  I don't think anybody is complaining that the software
> > is a part of the Fedora Project itself, just where they should land.
> > Core or Extras.
> 
> Actually I for example don't use KDE, and don't care if it's in core or
> extras.
> 
> What I do care about is Gnome depending on arts.

Unless it has changed - the only reason Gnome depends upon arts is one
single gstreamer plugin.

I filed an RFE to have it split into a separate package awhile ago (I
think pre FC3) and was told it wasn't worth it - even though without
that plugin, I wouldn't need either arts or qt (both of which I never
use)

> 
> I'd rather people spent more time untangling this kind of stupid
> cross-dependencies than arguing what needs to be made second-class
> citizen.

Modularization hopefully will fix that - if it is applied to things like
gstreamer plugins (which is where the arts is pulled in)

Some other apps (ie mplayer in livna) also want it - but only because
they are generic onesizefitsall builds, due to a lack of a proper plugin
architecture (like gstreamer provides)

If you really want the qt/arts cross dependency from gnome removed -
file a bug with gstreamer-plugins.