On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Elliot Lee wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's a heads up that we need to get rid of about 300M of packages to > make sure that FC4 continues to fit on 4 CD's. Right now eclipse, xfce, > xemacs, cfengine, and all the games are leading candidates. We also may > try to start removing stuff from Core in hopes that it will appear in > Extras if someone cares about it. > Has anyone answered the question of whether RedHat will provide manpower to maintain packages in Extras? (I wasn't at FUDCon -- I was hoping it would get tossed about there.) It's one thing to talk about keeping FC4 to 4 CDs so we don't burden users with downloading extra programs. It's another to say RedHat needs to keep its maintenance of packages down; currently we can only support about 4 CDs worth of stuff. -Toshio
