On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:09 AM, Lyos Gemini Norezel <lyos.gemininorezel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's come to my attention lately that Fedora has, essensially, become 'to > big for it's britches' (as you old farts like to say). > I think the time has come for Fedora to be split up into subgroups: > What is too big for one's britches? That it doesn't fit on one cd? That there is other code than that shipped on the DVD? > To some extent, these groups already exist, but they are not/cannot be > complete until the distribution is behind each one. > > I know many will knock this idea as "hard to maintain", but... is it really? > > The infrastructure will be difficult to setup, but once done, should be a > breeze to maintain. > Especially since everyone here already focuses on their ideal use case > anyway. Are you volunteering to help solve this problem with actual code and showing how developer workflow will happen? Especially when package A is needed by package B which is in X-01 sub-distro but not in X-02 because it doesn't fit the definition of X-02. Or when package A in X-01 has been upgraded and your program in B doesn't work anymore because it needed A-01 and the maintainer is no longer doing that... and you don't find out until release time. To be honest, anyone who says infrastructure should be a breeze to maintain... has to define breeze... I have yet to see a build infrastructure anywhere that is a 'breeze'... too many frickin' corner cases. > > Maybe it's just me, but I think it's time Fedora stops trying to become > another Debian, and starts catering to the groups that comprise it. > > What do ya'll think? > > Lyos Gemini Norezel > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
