Fedora Extras is extra

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 22:29 +0100, Bernd Radinger wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:49:19 -0500, William M. Quarles <quarlewm at jmu.edu> wrote:
> > I put this back on list (which is a newsgroup for me).
> 
> *oops*
> 
> > >>Fedora Extras was supposed to be a community project from the beginning.
> > >>  It did not come from Red Hat like Fedora Core did.
> > >
> > >
> > > Did you ever read fedora.redhat.com? ``Fedora Extras'' is part of Red
> > > Hat's Fedora Project. But it does not exist yet.
> > 
> > Yeah, and I haven't seen it on The Fedora Project website yet at all.
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html  <-- it's
> explained right there
> 

And one of the statements about Fedora Extras is:
"Packages in Fedora Extras must not conflict with packages in Fedora
Core."

Fedora.US has some packages that do not meet this requirement.

> > Apparently you haven't been to <http://www.fedora.us/> lately either,
> > since that is where Fedora Extras currently exists.
> 
> Did anybody disagree with that?!
>  
> > Fedora Extras is not listed as one of the Fedora subprojects.
> > <http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/>
> 
> Fedora Core and Fedora Alternatives are not listed there either. ;-p
> 
> > >>There should be a
> > >>community on Fedora Extras now.  And if this is a respected part of the
> > >>Fedora Project, I am sure having a hard time finding the link from
> > >>fedora.redhat.com to fedora.us.
> > >
> > > http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/
> > >
> > > There you are.
> > 
> > I don't see anything about Fedora Extras there either. 
> 
> Try once more.
> 
> -- 
> Bernd
>