Fedora core 3 feature requests

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

>Hi
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>>Should change the last one to "All your favorite
>>software which has a 
>>restrictive license and/or problems with the DMCA"
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>i wasnt complaining. just stating it so that others
>wouldnt 
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I know. I said that only to make things more clear to people... I like 
to put things clear (specially on this subject) , as I'm tired of 
explaining to people why fedora doesnt support mp3 , ntfs , etc..

>>This is not simple. Many people have asked this ,
>>but so far no one 
>>started working on comps.xml... And this is no
>>simple task...
>>If people start now , maybe in FC4 or FC5 the job
>>will be finished.
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>does it really take so long (an year or so by your
>estimate) . Wouldnt shuffling packages around in that
>file according the dependencies be enough to do this?
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Probably yes. To do this , it's necessary to choose a new base install , 
which isnt easy (I saw how hard it is on a project I worked on). Then, 
you have to check all the packages , see their popularity and then 
decide if it should be kept in core or be moved to extras. Most of this 
process is based on talking and getting to an agreement.. And doing this 
having only a mailing list to coordinate this job is hard... That's why 
I estimated one year to this...

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>no. i think all services remotely accessible should be
>disabled by default.fedora favours usability over
>this. I think it involves some discussion. mailing
>lists are better for that
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Which ones are remotely acessible? The default configuration (at least 
for the services I remmember) is to be only acessible to 127.0.0.1 when 
they are started by default.. In the other cases , the services arent 
started by default and you have to configure them .

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Pedro Macedo