On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 13:30 -0500, Crutcher Dunnavant wrote: > I think that perhaps, "Core" and "Extras" is insufficiently fine > grained. There is value in a truly small distro, one small enough > that, while it contains everything needed to run itself, it does not > contain the tools needed to build itself. Think PVRs, Routers, > MyRoboticDog, etc. > > Since these packages are to be built in a common space, it's really > just an issue of which repository the RPMS get dropped into after they > are built. I'd rather see something like, in staggered order of > dependancy: > > Core - (no, really, CORE. No X, no gcc, just the hard base.) > Desktop > Development > Multimedia > Extras I'd like to see a simplified version of this: Fedora Core (similar to a minimal install) Fedora (The main distribution, similar to current Core) Fedora Extras (similar to current fedora.us, but with the occasional ISOs being pushed out for easier distribution) Phil
