Fedora 7

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:24 +0900, Naoki wrote:
> This is going to sound really stupid but what the heck; The nice thing
> about the "core" and "extras" differentiation was you knew what was
> "core" and what was "extra".
> 
> Without this distinction how does average Joe know that compiz is
> preferred over beryl, or that xmms is the option to Rhythmbox not the
> other way around?   Just the definition inside comps.xml or something
> more complex?

How does Joe user know this now?  They're just using the graphical tools
which (intentionally) don't show this.  It's definitely an area that
could deal with improvement, but differentiation based on repo isn't
really the answer.  There's a real opportunity to explore some new ways
of showing the defaults[1]

Jeremy

[1] as well as other "interesting" information that isn't contained in
the package itself, think reviews, screenshots, etc)