[fab] fedora slashdot interview
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Aug 2 21:36:49 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 02:03 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:59, Rahul wrote:
> >> There is a question of better integration in existing products that goes
> >> beyond Red Hat's upstream project involvement though. Random examples of
> >> this are Network Manager being shipped enabled by default in various
> >> other distributions while Fedora does not. Dogtail just got into Fedora
> >> development tree yesterday. Sabayon is in Fedora Extras still.
> >
> > It really should not matter if these packages are on Core or Extras. They are
> > available at install time and that is what matters.
> >
>
> It should not but it clearly does now. What we do later to nullify the
> differences doesnt change the current status of these repositories. Red
> Hat spend all the effort in creating a tool which has very low amount of
> visibility due to decision to provide it in Fedora Extras which is what
> I was pointing out.
That same decision, however, shows that Red Hat _is_ intending for
Fedora to be a community driven distro. It has other benefit IMHO.
josh
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