On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:17 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > So "someone in Red Hat makes a decision" is not the problem. Unclear > criteria, lack of "what is suitable functionality for core" policy etc > is a problem (you can argue how big a problem it is of course). In a strictly "functional" sense, all that *needs* to be in Core are: 1) those packages that enable network/Internet access and installation of more packages 2) those packages that people will likely use on systems that will never have network/Internet access Group 1 is fairly defined. Group 2 is largely subjective as there are so many usage patterns in that group. Group 2 is largely eliminated by a good infrastructure for bundling up Extras/third-party repos as CDs that can be used offline. A consequence of these two rules would be that packages that are only useful when the target system has Internet access would be more suitably residing in Extras. Also, java and friends have a home in Core according to these two criteria. /Mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
