On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 13:07 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > 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. > No, That's the point - if fedora is going to work and going to have a constantly increasing number of packages then people OUTSIDE of red hat need to play ball. if you don't know how to get on the team go here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CvsAccess and learn! :) -sv
