On Dec 1, 2007 6:20 PM, Yaakov Nemoy <loupgaroublond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > People talk about the 'balkanization' of a platform. I would call > splitting packages up unecessarily the 'gentooification' of Fedora. And despite all the efforts the Fedora community has put into making it easy to make custom Fedora spins, people still go to gentoo for their custom spins. I have a colleague who tried to make a custom distro for cisco systems, and he tried to use Fedora, but do to some idiotic dependency he could not use the packages he needed without pulling in a bunch of extra garbage he didn't want like X. He ended up just using gentoo because it was so much easier. I will try and ask him the specific details of his problem for the purposes of this discussion if anyone is interested. > If your 1% user base needs a package done slightly different, then > it's something that IMHO should be done internally. I'm not talking about a 1% user base, I'm talking about a complete paradigm shift on how we think about what Fedora is. I think Fedora should be viewed more as a base or reference platform to make other distributions from, and not just simply as another packaged distro for a typical end user. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
