I submitted a patched .src.rpm file that corrects those problems so that not only are the libraries much smaller, but third party db generator tools work ( since they are generally statically linked ) and it has just sat there without any changes.
So, please, move it to extras so that someone can maintain it. There may be dozens of packages like nss_db where the average person does not use it, it has been poorly maintined, and it get isntalled by default on all systems.
Cheers, Eric
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
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.
Well yeah. But that's neither here nor there. You're stating that Core is defined as RedHat's contribution and Extras as The Community contribution to the Fedora Project. But that's never been stated.
I want that clarified because it's a very different thing to look at Core and say I wouldn't mind having to download that separate from the Core CDs versus I wouldn't mind maintaining that package or seeing it go to /dev/null.
This, of course, leads into the complementary question of whether RedHat is willing to open up maintenance of Core packages to Community contributers.
So there's a different set of criteria for choosing packages and a different set of helpful suggestions outside the scope of adding/removing packages depending on what we're actually trying to limit (disk space or RedHat maintenence burden.)
if you don't know how to get on the team go here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CvsAccess
Yep. But fear of rejection has always kept me shy :-)
-Toshio
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