Fedora 7

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 5 09:30:48 UTC 2007


> > 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".
> >
> <snip>
> > Also, how will this help the creation of RHEL?  If Fedora is to remain
> > the basis for RHEL will this not slightly confuse things?
>
> Why is this a concern for Fedora?  It's not.  It's something Red Hat
> will have to figure out.  Though I doubt it will be very hard for them
> to do so.
>
> Besides, RHEL already contains a package set that spans today's Core and
> Extras.  Exim is an example.  It's in RHEL, and it's in Extras.  Let the
> engineers at Red Hat decide what to put in RHEL.  They seem to be doing
> a fine job already.

I suspect it will be just another spin of the Fedora package tree like
Desktop or Server that is then further stabilised so not much
different to now. Most of the stuff that's happening in Fedora is just
as relevant to rhel as it is fedora.

Peter




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