On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 11:00 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 07:37 -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: > > Are we targeting developers? Corporate desktop users? People who > > travel a lot? People setting up LAMP servers? Some combination? > > AFAICT, there's no particular group of users we target: > -- FC is mostly for home use > -- we want to make it useful for laptops > -- it is the base of RHEL > > So it's clearly a combination. For Core to be relevant to people, > it has to be useful out of the box. This rules out the absolute > minimal Core IMO. > > In terms of what goes in, I would think that is should be packages > that are useful to the majority of users in any one segment. This > view would support having in Core apps as diverse as GIMP, Apache, > JOnAS. > > One important aspect that seems to be overlooked when we talk about > applications included by default in Core is the message that it sends. > Namely, "a lot of experienced people have looked at alternatives, and > we think that this particular one is the one that's most appropriate > for most people". In other words, we're giving certain applications > more weight then others. > > By moving everything to extras, we lose this message, and that would be > a step back for many people that don't have the time and experience to > decide at every turn between the various options available out there. and once you can install extras from w/i anaconda during the initial install? How is that any different? So we need to break things up intelligently based on groups, I think. So that new users can select larger groups like 'graphic tools' or 'web server' -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
