On Wednesday 17 August 2005 01:18, Paul A Houle <ph18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Longer-term, it might be interesting to do more of a fork: but the > further you diverge from Fedora the more problems you have. For > instance, people who want to play mp3's might like a distribution that > has no media players and no dependencies on media players -- they can > install what they like the way they like it. Trouble is that they might Due to dependencies I don't think it will be possible to spin a distribution without any of the programs which MAY have MP3 support. You can't produce a distribution with MP3 support and call it Fedora for legal reasons. Probably the best thing to do for someone who wants MP3 support would be to create a derivative distribution "based on Fedora Core" that has the MP3 support compiled in. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
