On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 09:11:16PM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:42:54 -0500, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Achieving that without ending up with FC-mumble coming out without an > x (insert package in extras) that will work on it being available for > weeks will be quite an accomplishment. Without this level of assurance Um, I think I need either some more punctuation in the above sentence or some more coffee -- Huh? :) > we're asking users that depend on 'extras' packages to undertake a > difficult additional step of comparing the packages they use against > the available extras prior to upgrading (since compatibility is broken > from time to time). Packages have always been dropped from the distro. Moving them to extras instead of dropping them seems like a huge win here. > As far as installing ease, unless you mean that extras will be > available as an additional DVD image, and the installer prompts the > user for additional disks so they can be added to the package > selection (and the bloat-me-harder everything install) then we will > have not achieved the same ease as packages in the base install. Yes, I think this is a goal. > If extras do indeed turn out to be so well maintained and easy to > install that my concerns turn out warrentless, then we really should > be moving the bulk of the distribution into extras. And yes, I'd like to see this too. "Core" should be just that. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>