Hi, I've been reading past posts and am starting to understand the goals of the Fedora project much better. If I'm not mistaken, the primary goal isn't to target a specific set of users (ie. desktop vs. server) or platform (x86_64 vs. ppc, notebook vs. desktop), but to come up with a distro that's easy to re-spin for people who DO want to customize Fedora for a particular purpose. If that's the case, would I be correct in assuming that Fedora would prioritize increasing the modularity of its packages? That Fedora is making it easier to add or remove while minimizing the affect it would have on other packages? For instance, if I desired to come up with a spin that doesn't have Sendmail, why must I give up fetchmail, mutt or tor? Why is it that so many packages can't stand alone without libvorbis? I know that some of the packages NEED libvorbis, but for many, shouldn't it be optional and something that isn't required to be compiled against (think dlopen(3) instead of ld(1)) like gstreamer-plugins-* (which all seem to require libvorbis)? I guess I'm just stating a principle which should be a guiding one if Fedora wants to come up with a system that's really flexible for people who want to come up with their own spins. So currently, is it (a guiding principle to make packages modular and depend less on others)? Note that I'm not asking if this is to be a target, just if it's written somewhere as something to keep in mind when packaging things. I understand that Fedora is dealing with a huge system that's been around for ages. Some people's complaints about Fedora being too bulky isn't even Fedora's fault. They've just been dealing with a relic that it has to modernize. Towards that goal, Fedora has done a lot and continues to improve on it (next-gen init, boot-up process, etc.). -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
