Feature: Fedora Electronic Lab
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 14 08:26:16 UTC 2007
Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>>>> This looks like it would be served better as a custom spin of F8.
>>>> It's not really a feature so much as a package collection.
>
>>> Calling it a feature allows us to highlight the focused effort that
>>> has gone into bringing these set of packages into the Fedora
>>> repository. I think that is a good thing to do.
>
>> I suppose that is true. It can be done either (or both!) way.
>
> A problem with the special purpose spin approach is a particular user
> might need the focus of two or more spins, then he is back to installing
> packages anyway. Spins are great if there really is one purpose, but
> the main effort seems to need to be in the packaging aspect either way,
> which Chitlesh seems to have been busy (!) with.
Right but spins are good if you want to promote some aspect of Fedora
and get people interested. For a electronics show distributing a spin
like this might make sense.
Rahul
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