thoughts on modules-extra subpackage...

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 05:01:39PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
 > > > And there is a long history of security bugs being found in the new
 > > > and/or infrequently-used modules.
 > > 
 > > That's probably true.  I still wonder if that is common enough to be
 > > worth the change.
 > 
 > I'm still of the opinion we should just turn them off.

I'm ok with turning off a lot of the stuff we have in -extras,
and reenabling it if it turns out to be more popular than we realised.

 > At the same time, we should probably be a bit more judicious about
 > enabling new drivers.  They're normally not all that great in their
 > first full release, so they should default to off until requested or
 > proven otherwise.

Agreed. Though it doesn't hurt to get a feel for something in rawhide,
but we shouldn't just enable new stuff for rebases of stable releases.

	Dave