On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 22:41 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > As for how we determined what gets purged, you start with > the following categories: > - 'other large apps, as need be', including, but not limited to: > ImageMagick > <games> > non-default apps (abiword, balsa, sylpheed, ddd, sawfish, etc) > math/science/HPC stuff (pvm, octave, etc) > xemacs these should have alternatives already in core. e.g. it's ok to remove abiword, gnumeric and koffice as we have OpenOffice.org in core not ok to remove tora (graphical sql shell), no 'better' alternatives included. IMHO, every removal (done by current package maintainer) should be followed by adding the package to fedora extras (by the same package maintainer). After being included in Extras for current FC version, current RH package maintainer could stop maintaining it if desired and let community take care of it for future. This way nobody will say "RH doesn't want package X in Fedora", but community will have it in extras (provided by RH) and if needed can further maintain it. -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro
