RedHat, Fedora future?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 6 16:35:27 UTC 2004
Robin Laing (Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca) said:
> >Applications shipped with the OS (Mozilla, OpenOffice) are by
> >definition not add-ons.
>
> This is one thing that I thought of but in my mind, I see that the
> programs are add-ons to the OS. Following this train of thought, any
> application that is installed later should install in /opt correct?
> If I install a bare-bones Fedora without apps, then add OpenOffice
> later, it becomes an add-on as it was added later. When does an
> application move from being part of the OS install to being an add-on?
Erm, so when you install it should cause it to move? That's not
implementable in *any* sort of clean way.
Bill
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