On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:07 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2005, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The old way of thinking about this has got to go. _Moving_ something to
> > Extras is not the same thing as removing it from the distro.
>
> Then where's the Extras rawhide tree? Are we going to have Extras
> ISOs rolled out along with the test releases? Without this, Extras
> just won't get as much testing because they're not going to work with
> rawhide or test releases. And for people who depend on packages from
> Extras, this means they're less likely to run the test releases or
> track rawhide, which means less testing.
>
> Unless Extras is really part of the distro infrastructure, instead of
> a dump of packages people don't want in the core distro, the quality
> of the distro as a whole is going to suffer.
Yes, this is absolutely true. We have to make it part of the same
thing, not just call it part of the same thing.
> > We have got to stop thinking of moving something to Extras as removing
> > it from the distro. Core is not the distro, it is merely a part of the
> > distro. Extras is another part.
>
> +1
>
> I really hope we're going to see FC4 Extras test1 CD go out on the
> same day as FC4test1, and even have snapshots of them a few days
> before to sanity-check before the actual test release.
Agreed.
--
Peter
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