Le dimanche 06 mars 2005 Ã 08:00 +1100, Rodd Clarkson a Ãcrit : > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 18:50 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > lÃr, 05.03.2005 kl. 16.49 skrev Josh Boyer: > > > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 16:08 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > > > I know that we are aleady pushed for space, but including a few kb's of > > > > templates to the huge package OO already is, seems nothing but > > > > reasonable, especially considering the end-user benefit. > > > > > > I think this is a Fedora Extras candidate. Entire packages that are > > > only a few KiBs are being pushed out to Extras, so I don't think we want > > > to add anything that isn't needed to the core OO package. > > > I probably could, but i simply just don't think this is an extras > > candidate. Users simply expect templates to be there, or at least a box > > "you need to install xxx from yyy to get templates". > > > As I understand it, many (all) of the packages being moved from Core to > Extras are being 'pushed out' (as you put it) because they offer > duplicate functionality. > > In the case of adding some templates for OOo, then your wouldn't be > adding another package for which the functionality was already available > (but might not be your preferred package), you are actually adding very > useful functionality for many, many users who will only use Fedora for > word processing, web browsing and email I agree a few carefully selected templates belong in core (maybe only one that uses fedora colors;) - don't underestimate the marketing value of this kind of stuff) but the bulk of them is clearly extras material. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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