Does Fedora want to expel KDE from its offerings?

[Richard Z]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 01:17:59PM -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> I cannot help noticing: the Fedora Project is monumentally unfriendly to KDE
> these days.
> 
> Look at their Product offerings: Cloud, Server, Workstation. And as far as
> Fedora's officials are concerned, Workstation = GNOME. GNOME now and GNOME
> forever. GNOME, all GNOME, and nothing but GNOME.
> 
> With the F21 release, they grudgingly let you upgrade with the "nonproduct"
> option.

I was thinking the same, but who will suffer most by the product nonsense? 
Server or Gnome users who accidentally fedup to product=server or workstation.
If I understand it correctly this will make complete havoc of their configuration, 
installing packages someone else thought are important for them and potentially 
creating security issues on servers and conflicts with already installed 
packages (screwing alternatives).

So I think KDE is lucky it wasn't included in that set.

I am however rather unhappy with the new command line option names of fedup, 
you don't want to have people google for "fedup product".
Also instead of "nonproduct" it should be "good-old" or something like that.


Richard

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