On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:32:25 -0800 (PST), Dan Hollis <goemon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why not make both available? After all, fedora includes both gcc3.x and > gcc4, although gcc4 definitely has issues. how big are the gcc3.x and gcc4.x package sets? how big are the openoffice.org packages? Considering the size of openoffice I think it would be irresponsible to choose to ship multiple versions of it in Core considering the need to be respectful of overall bloat. There is also a question of confusing the target audience. Requiring the target audience of a compiler to know the difference between gcc3 and gcc4 is a small burden. Requiring the target audience of oo.org or other end-user application to understand the difference between the 2 versions of the same application being offered in Core would in my estimation be a much larger burden on the target group and cause significant confusion. I don't think its really worth providing multiple versions of the same 'large' end-user application at all. Either oo.org 2.0 ships with fc4 or it doesn't.. it will clearly be in fc5. In the meantime the maintainer should make the appropriate choice and pick one version of the application to ship in fc4 based on the experience with the codebase and the expected maintainership burden for fc4 updates. Damned if you do... damned if you don't. -jef