[DEP-BLOAT] My favourite one...
Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 25 18:21:25 UTC 2006
Gianluca Sforna wrote:
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> Sorry for not being clear on this.
> I understand that a medium term goal for Fedora is to remove the
> distinction between Core and Extras, so that all packages are treated
> in the same way (e.g. maintained with the help of the community).
> This would eventually improve the overall quality of them, allowing
> things that the current maintaners are not going to do (usually for
> lack of time).
Right.
> One of this things could be a finer packaging, splitting stuff where
> possible to achieve a speedier download/install/update _and_ resolve
> issues like the present
>
I wouldnt really want to wait for a merge before fixing dependency bloat
on packages. I am sure community contributors can help when there is a
bigger chance to do so more easily.
Rahul
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