I think, rsh is quite obsolete

[Rahul Sundaram]

Olivier Galibert wrote:

> 
> What is the current target of Core?  Right now it looks like there is
> a push to limit it to the needs of the "home desktop/laptop,
> gnome-desktop only, office tools, no cli" crowd.  The windows desktop
> crowd, in other words.  Everybody else has to go hit extras.  Is that
> by design, or does it just happen?

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CoreVsExtras for the original idea.

> Maybe the core/extras distinction should go away, to be replaced by a
> "make your own core" system.  I have the starts of one, but it would
> require a lot of work still. There could be lists of packages for for
> instance:
> - base
> - gnome desktop
> - kde desktop
> - other wm/desktops
> - legagy X11 apps
> - TeX
> - parallel/distributed processing
> etc...
> 
> And then you "just" need some tools to build a repository or an iso
> from a bunch of such lists.  Fedora could easily promote a particular
> configuration of lists as a "release" and create isos for that one, or

The distribution composing tool that is designed to do this is pungi
http://jkeating.livejournal.com/32250.html

> even give a number of choices (gnome desktop, kde desktop, server...).
> That would help remove the second class citizen stain that is
> currently plagueing extras.
> 
> I suspect one big problem would be merging the mirroring for core and
> extras into something common, but larger.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit for the current plans.

Rahul