Summary of Dropped Packages

[Elliot Lee]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Peter Robinson wrote:

> So with these removed from Core I assume they are going to be in Extras.
> Correct? In Extras will they continue to be maintained as before or will
> they need someone to step up and maintain them? The reason I ask is it
> would be a pity to see abiword and gnumeric disappear as I find them
> considerably faster than OOo and in the case of Abiword it supports a
> number of word files that don't work to well with OOo.I also use grip.
> While I'm happy for them to be in extras rather than core I would still
> like them to be around.

The plan is to add these packages to Extras as demand requires. Volunteers
are always wanted to help maintain packages. Are you interested? Please 
see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras_2fCvsAccess

Cheers,
-- Elliot