fc5 goals

[Paul A Houle]

Yuri Prushinsky wrote:

> desktop manager is not the correct decision for removal, the more 
> important is to move typical productivity 3rd party applications to 
> Extras. I'm a KDE user, with every new release of Gnome I try to 
> switch to it, but it's just not usable for me, sorry guys.
>     So, I decided to delete apps that I never use, yum remove mozilla 
> wiped out mozilla with a bunch of gnome-related packages. Fine, I 
> don't need the beta of OOo, yum remove openoffice removed one and 
> about 100 gnome-related packages! Rpm-hell is alive, and waits you 
> under yum!
>     Okay, now I have my lovely kdm, kde, and 3rd party firefox and the 
> latest OOo, which have their own installators.
> I really like the kind of Core that freeBSD provides, and it would be 
> nice if FC will have the same tool set in its core.
>
    I've said it before,  but...

    If you don't like the package set chosen in Fedora core,  go ahead 
and roll your own "Hard Core" linux.

    Fedora comes with a set of tools that will turn a directory full of 
rpm's into a linux distribution you can burn onto an ISO.  Create a 
.torrent and you can share it with everybody.  If you just want to 
subset Fedora,  this ought to be easy.