On 12/06/2012 01:00 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 22:25 -0600, Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> On 12/05/2012 03:06 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>> Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: >>>> Three things: >>>> >>>> 1) Fedora is big enough that we have concrete situations where one size >>>> doesn't fit all. Puppet being broken on F17 (and probably F18 as well) >>>> is a fine example of something within the distro itself. And, as a >>>> platform for development, offering more version choices to our users >>>> would be a strength. >>> >>> <heretical> >>> >>> Well, then maybe Fedora's too big, and we should move to a model where >>> Fedora is much smaller, and the grand Fedora universe contains things that >>> are packaged *for* one or multiple Fedoras. >>> >>> </heretical> >> >> FWIW (probably not much), I also think this is a great idea. It feels >> strange to me that the same thing contains & manages everything from >> base system (e.g. kernel through core GNOME stack) and add-on apps (say >> Battle for Wesnoth, to pick a relatively obvious example). >> >> Now, there's a bike shed to be painted over where the lines should be drawn. > > We could draw them between Core and Extras! :) Note that just because we got rid of Core doesn't mean that it was a bad idea. Ubuntu even adopted a "Core" of their own a while back. Maybe they'll have the same experience we had and get away from that, or maybe Linux distributions should ultimately not be in the business of providing all+kitchen sink. Speaking only personally, what I want is a stable core platform of very limited size against which I can install other packages and stacks. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
