David Eisenstein (deisenst@xxxxxxx) said: > Further -- I see much glibness about saying, "Throw this over to extras. > Throw that over to extras. Extras can take care of it." I understand > there appears to be some community-wide consensus that it is a "Good > Thing"®™ to reduce the size of Fedora Core. (I am afraid I don't know > Mr. Extras - can he handle all these new packages?) Look over the list of packages provided. It's all packages with no dependencies, either runtime or buildtime. Most of said packages are libraries. I see no motiviation for Core to provide libraries that aren't actually *used*; there is really no way that that benefits users. Bill
