On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 04:00:22PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Gah. I should have careful with my words... What I intended to > convey is that packages included in the core distribution tend to be > better maintained. This wasn't intended to be a specific slam against While this should be taken with the normal caution around forward-looking statements, I don't think that this will necessarily be the case, especially for special-domain programs like Octave. With FC-mumble-mumble-5, installing packages from Extras will be as easy as installing packages from Core. And, since they can be maintained by someone specialized in the particular field and well-versed in the actual program -- maybe someone who *just* maintains that package with no other Fedora workload -- I expect many Extras packages to get *better* maintenance than they would in Core. > -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>