kde in extras - the devel discussion

[Gene Heskett]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Ralf Corsepius" <rc040203 at freenet.de>
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 11:35 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>>> Norm wrote:
>>>
>>> > Personally I prefer Gnome, but then that is my choice.  One thing I 
>>> like > about Linux when compared to that other operating system is 
>>> one does > have choices.
>>> > My feeling is the core of Fedora at 5 cd's is getting a little out 
>>> of > hand; if I may make a suggestion in this area why not reduce the 
>>> core to > a true minimum needed to intiate an installation and create 
>>> bundles of
>>> I have suggested this before, only much more hard'core'.  The "true 
>>> minimum' needed to initiate an installation is a relatively small 
>>> packageset that does not require X or a Desktop Environment, in fact 
>>> I proposed to precook that minimum into a tarball and poop it onto 
>>> your HDD in one shot, boot into that and bring in what you need in a 
>>> < 1 minute install action.
>>>
>>> Put another way, no playing favourites, blow Gnome into Extras too, 
>>> turn the actual 'core' into something that is good for Firewalls, 
>>> routers, server duties AND the basis of a Desktop box.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Ralf
> 
> Just off hand I did not think making sense was allowed on this list.
> Were I Andy I'd be afraid they'd ban me or something. I'll add another
> +1.
> 
> {^_-}
> 
Sense?  Occasionally tolerated, Joanne.  But this thread is making a 
very valid point IMO. so let me add another
+1
to the tally.  If kde goes to extras, then so should gnome.  That would 
go long way toward seeing that both sides of the ox were equally gored.

-- 
Cheers, Gene