Fedora Extras is extra

[William M. Quarles]

Matthew Miller wrote:

> 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. 

Uh, no it isn't.  (To go with my previous example) where I get one 
version of Xine vs. some different version Xine doesn't really matter 
because other packages aren't dependent on it.  However, all of the 
underlying libraries are carried by multiple repositories and they are 
used by multiple programs.  If Fedora Core does not have any 
applications using those libraries (or other programs that have 
dependencies but they aren't really used in Fedora Core), then obviously 
they should not be a part of Fedora Core, and thus those are the types 
of things that Fedora Extras should carry.  Anything more would become 
some nightmare of a too big community, like the Roman Empire.

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Peace,
William