Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On 11/9/06, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
- around us are people who use non-Linux systems and rsh is very
important for them
Maybe we're already somewhere on the way between classic UNIX and
Windows, but I think it's still to early to forget classic UNIX rule:
The right tool for the job.
Yes assuredly... there are situations to use things like rsh and even
telnet-server.
But the unanswered question here is.. can those situations be served
by moving this functionality into Extras and out of Core? I believe
that they can.
Sometime in the future -- yes. But not now.
A lot of people still buy Fedora on CDs (especially in third-world
countries), and even have no on-line Internet to download something
more. Removing of these "well-known" utilities (rsh and friends) will
produce some kind of "culture shock" (the same as when mp3&friends was
removed).
And, actually, all such stuff takes just several megabytes of code. I am
sure it even less than the total size of "gnome-games" included into
Core... (You guess, I'm a "production envrionment" man :) )
I also believe that continuing to narrow the focus of
Core and to keep Core technology-forward looking is important.
It sounds like you want to *cause* people to switch to new technologies.
It is similar to a unfair competition... ;)
Seriously, the time to move this stuff to Extras is when the
enterprise-level distros (RHEL etc.) will refuse it. That will mean that
the market, the production environments and the real customers do not
need such programs any more.
-jef"I use rsh..but I don't need it in Core"spaleta
But I need it in Core.
~buc
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