A clarification of Fedora philosophy.

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 15:18 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> I don't want to start Yet Another Flame War,

Yet, he asks the question that's gonna do it...  ;-)

> but does anybody know how or why such seemingly-obvious tools were
> left out?  Was it just a case of "so many programs, so little time?"

Hasn't this already been discussed on this list, several times, even
recently?

There's:




Not everything will fit on the DVD, so you install extras, afterwards.

Gnome reckons you don't need to configure it to death, so many things
are preset, and customisation requires fiddling under the hood.

Only die-hard fiddlers need that, so they can do it the hard way.

Someone else can make a gadget that makes configuration easier.

It's automated, so you don't need to know how to make it work.

How we do things changes so often that it's too much of a chore to keep
documentation up to date, or even write the initial documentation.
We'll let someone else do it.

A hundred different people produced this, and none of us can explain it
all, so none of us are going to try.




I think I've summarised most of it.  ;-\

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