Fedora Extras is extra
William M. Quarles
quarlewm at jmu.edu
Mon Nov 29 19:07:51 UTC 2004
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
>
>>>There's been a lot of discussion about this. The points the page makes are
>>>real, and declaring their answer "Microsoft-ish" isn't constructive. Do you
>>>have an alternate *solution*?
>>
>>I do recognize their points, but unfortunately you have failed to
>>recognize mine. In case you didn't notice, my message did point out an
>>alternate *solution*.
>
> Making Fedora Extras a very tiny "outer" core of library packages and not
> try to provide a wide base of packages that all work nicely together? That's
> more "dropping having Fedora Extras" than it is solving the problem of
> repository conflicts.
Uh, no it isn't. (To go with my previous example) where I get one
version of Xine vs. some different version Xine doesn't really matter
because other packages aren't dependent on it. However, all of the
underlying libraries are carried by multiple repositories and they are
used by multiple programs. If Fedora Core does not have any
applications using those libraries (or other programs that have
dependencies but they aren't really used in Fedora Core), then obviously
they should not be a part of Fedora Core, and thus those are the types
of things that Fedora Extras should carry. Anything more would become
some nightmare of a too big community, like the Roman Empire.
----
Peace,
William
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