UnleashKDE

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 04:31 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 00:42 +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > Maybe this is a silly idea, but why not just make a fedora-kde project
> > > that only holds all the kde stuff, instead of putting it in
> > > fedora-extras ? Probably would fit on a single CD, so people that want
> > > fedora with KDE can just burn core and the kde CD.
> >
> > Ugh...  not _another_ project.  If you start fragmenting projects like
> > that, then you spread the resources that much thinner and half of them
> > don't gain any momentum.
> >
> > KDE belongs in Extras.  We already have guidelines, leadership, rules,
> > etc.  There is no need to reinvent all of that and fragment even more.
> >
> > josh
> 
> Umm.. Hold up a bit. As much as I am not actively rolling packages,
> but... what's wrong with KDE in core? I have heard comments that KDE
> is a bastard child in Fedora, but I have defended the Fedora Project
> against that. If I understand right, moving a package (or set of
> packages) to Extras means that it will nolonger be on the install
> media. There are already enough packages not part of the install media
> for legal reasons...now KDE?

Core is big at the moment.  It contains multiple sets of packages that
serve the same purpose.  Having two desktop environments, doesn't really
make it a "core" distro.  One of the long standing issues is to reduce
the number of CDs Core takes and this is one method of doing that.

Then there's also the userbase that would like more control over KDE.
They want to give it a bit more attention.  I say go for it.

Oh, and at one time a goal was to have anaconda allow installing from
3rd party repos in FC6.  Not sure if that is still the case, but it
would eliminate much of that argument.

By the way, XFCE was moved from Core to Extras a while ago.  I think it
has been a great move, and happily use XFCE without issue.  So there is
precedence that moving something larger into Extras does work.

josh