RedHat, Fedora future?

[Bill Nottingham]

Robin Laing (Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca) said: 
> >Applications shipped with the OS (Mozilla, OpenOffice) are by
> >definition not add-ons.
> 
> This is one thing that I thought of but in my mind, I see that the 
> programs are add-ons to the OS.  Following this train of thought, any 
> application that is installed later should install in /opt correct? 
> If I install a bare-bones Fedora without apps, then add OpenOffice 
> later, it becomes an add-on as it was added later.  When does an 
> application move from being part of the OS install to being an add-on?

Erm, so when you install it should cause it to move? That's not
implementable in *any* sort of clean way.

Bill