David Eisenstein (deisenst@xxxxxxx) said: > I apologize, Bill, and to all of you, for my rather harsh words. The > glibness is mine, not yours. Sorry. > > Dumb question: Where exactly do I find the list of packages provided? I assume you were talking about the list of proposed packaged for pruning that was in the original mail of this thread. If not, my apologies. > One thing that does concern me some is: What of people who, say, have been > using Fedora Core since the olden days, and who have custom or proprietary > applications on their computers that may require some of these older > deprecated libraries that upgrading to a newer Core will no longer provide? The old version sticks around on upgrade... > The plan then is to let Fedora Extras contributors take over these library > packages to continue maintaining them for new Core releases, right? If no > one steps forward then to maintain these packages, do they then become > orphaned/unmaintained or even unavailable? I would suspect so, much like any other Fedora Extras package that is given up by the maintainer. Bill
