Fedora Extras is extra

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0500, William M. Quarles wrote:
> >There's been a lot of discussion about this. The points the page makes are
> >real, and declaring their answer "Microsoft-ish" isn't constructive. Do you
> >have an alternate *solution*?
> I do recognize their points, but unfortunately you have failed to 
> recognize mine.  In case you didn't notice, my message did point out an 
> alternate *solution*.

Making Fedora Extras a very tiny "outer" core of library packages and not
try to provide a wide base of packages that all work nicely together? That's
more "dropping having Fedora Extras" than it is solving the problem of
repository conflicts.

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