Olivier Galibert wrote:
What is the current target of Core? Right now it looks like there is a push to limit it to the needs of the "home desktop/laptop, gnome-desktop only, office tools, no cli" crowd. The windows desktop crowd, in other words. Everybody else has to go hit extras. Is that by design, or does it just happen?
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/CoreVsExtras for the original idea.
Maybe the core/extras distinction should go away, to be replaced by a "make your own core" system. I have the starts of one, but it would require a lot of work still. There could be lists of packages for for instance: - base - gnome desktop - kde desktop - other wm/desktops - legagy X11 apps - TeX - parallel/distributed processing etc... And then you "just" need some tools to build a repository or an iso from a bunch of such lists. Fedora could easily promote a particular configuration of lists as a "release" and create isos for that one, or
The distribution composing tool that is designed to do this is pungi http://jkeating.livejournal.com/32250.html
even give a number of choices (gnome desktop, kde desktop, server...). That would help remove the second class citizen stain that is currently plagueing extras. I suspect one big problem would be merging the mirroring for core and extras into something common, but larger.
See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraSummit for the current plans. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
