On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, David Nielsen wrote:
As everyone probably knows a few days ago a suggestion was brought up that we start moving none essential stuff like KDE, XFce and a lot of the other duplication into Extras in order to reduce the size of Core.
I'm hereby proposing we hold a bug day on IRC, Saturday the 31th to debate the possibility of such an action and which programs to move in that is the case.
So far people have express a desire to move: KDE
As far as I'm concerned / In my opinion / yada-yada-yada...
Removing KDE form CORE would relegate it to second-class citizien (which many KDE users already perceive it to be under Fedora). This would be a deal-breaker, and would result in many folks switching distros. In short, don't even think about it.
-- Rex