UnleashKDE

Erwin Rol mailinglists at erwinrol.com
Thu Jun 8 07:33:02 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 20:01 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 12:11 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > But please take some caution with all of this. The Fedora Project
> > already has a lot of negaitve , all be it misinformed, bad press
> > surrounding it. Just head over /. and see for yourself when ever a
> > Fedora story comes up. Going around with titles such as "Unleash KDE"
> > and "Kde into Extras" seem a bit ill advised.
> 
> Why? There seems to be a widespread perception of extras being a "second
> class citizen". Why this may have been true in the past, this is
> changing quickly. Core is now being made subject to Extras packaging
> guidelines. And thus, subject to extras reviewers. :) Core is being
> moved over to the Extras build system. Etc.

So from now on Core will be a second class citizen too ;-)

> The long term goal seem to be to have Extras swallow up Core entirely,
> and at that point become a 100% community distro. Seems obvious to me,
> but maybe not to others.

And grind to an halt like Debian ? :-)

- Erwin





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