Re: [fab] fedora slashdot interview

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 02:03 +0530, Rahul wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:59, Rahul wrote:
> >> There is a question of better integration in existing products that goes
> >> beyond Red Hat's upstream project involvement though. Random examples of
> >> this are Network Manager being shipped enabled by default in various
> >> other distributions while Fedora does not. Dogtail just got into Fedora
> >> development tree yesterday. Sabayon is in Fedora Extras still.
> > 
> > It really should not matter if these packages are on Core or Extras.  They are 
> > available at install time and that is what matters.
> > 
> 
> It should not but it clearly does now. What we do later to nullify the 
> differences doesnt change the current status of these repositories. Red 
> Hat spend all the effort in creating a tool which has very low amount of 
> visibility due to decision to provide it in Fedora Extras which is what 
> I was pointing out.

That same decision, however, shows that Red Hat _is_ intending for
Fedora to be a community driven distro.  It has other benefit IMHO.

josh