Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:54:20 -0700, Joshua Eichorn <josh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It would be a shame to lose gnome-games, every computer needs easy
access to solitaire.
why? so office workers can be less productive?
Because every graphical OS since 1984 has shipped with it, and it has
more users then most other applications.
How about dropping some of the random documentation rpms we keep around,
they don't follow a pattern anyway (ie we have exim-doc but no
postfix-doc, we have python-doc but no php-doc or perl-doc)
Let me point out a hidden constraint for this fc4 timescale. You have
to think in terms of 'srpms' subpackages can only be dropped..
subpackages can not be moved out of Core into Extras. The -doc
packages you describe are actualy subpackages built from the same srpm
as the related runtime package. Its inappropriate to drop
documentation completely.. and since they are subpackages from the
same srpm you can't move them across the Core/Extras boundary. So
really the packages you suggest are non-starters.. unless package can
be re-engineered so that the docs are built from their own seperate
srpms.
We have dropped other large doc rpms in the past, its all the web
anyway. I'm not saying we can drop all the docs, but the docs for
programming languages would be an easy drop and would mesh well with
what has happened in the past (dropping php-manual between rh8-9 for
example)
-jef
-josh
