On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:28:29PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Ah yes, the "Extras isn't a second class citizen! Except when it is!" > > argument. :) > I'm not going to let you get away with that. :) [...] > marketed or recommended to SOMEONE What you propose is a collection > of software that serves no distinct role, has no distinct purpose to > any conceivable USER pool. Its an absolutely brain dead concept which > would kill whatever momentum this community has at reaching more > users. The media sets that LUGs and vendors can give out to people > MUST implement functionality that some target grouop of people are > thought to desire. Handing a CD of Core that has no end-user facing Right now, they have to hand out three or four CDs of Core. How is that better than handing out one CD of Core plus n CDs containing of Extras groups the distributing group feels is relevant to their audience? > functionality does jack for anyone but a TINY group of power users you > are grossly myopic about the power of customization to the detriment > of all else. I'm not horribly opposed to having a good web browser (e.g. Firefox) in Core -- that covers most computer use these days. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
