My strawman proposal does this. Core and Extras are just two points on the continuum. M On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:33, Tim Daly wrote: > I'm of the considered opinion that defining "Core" and "Extras" > was a bad idea. It makes the problem too binary. We should perhaps > consider the issue as a tree and define several trees, each path > being a possible install. > > Currently Core and Extras have become emotionally loaded political words > and, as such, have lost any rational meaning. > > We need, instead, to define a set of target endpoints (e.g. administrative > assistant, programmer, grandmother, email-browser, luser, etc). Then > someone becomes the designated "maintainer" for the endpoint and their > word is law. The maintainers can mark the packages with their badge > and the build system can make a "grandmother core". This can be done > downstream. The maintainers all report to a god-like figure (i'm > unavailable) similiar in role to a Linus. > > So the "newbie" maintainer can have tuxracer. > The "sysadmin" maintainer can have the registry. > The "free" maintainer can have religion. > And we all can have peace. > > kumbuya. > Tim Daly >
