Re: PROPOSAL: Core size reduction "bug day"

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 17:50, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 11:49:20AM -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> > Do you at least agree that my definition of Extras--the maximal set of
> > consistent packages, puts a bound on how out of hand components can
> > get?  I.e., there's still a normalizing force to be "in", even if that
> > "in" is much larger a circle than core.
> 
> I cerainly don't. Extras also needs to be bounded by being open source and
> not dependant on proprietary code

Why? Would you mind to elaborate your motivation for this position?

I agree, it is in Linux/GNU's general interest to  promote "Open Source"
SW, but I also feel this isn't necessarily attractive to many users.

I.e. in case Extras is supposed to contain "OpenSource" only (Which I am
not opposed to!), I vote for adding a "Non-OpenSource" add-on repository
to Fedora Extras.

Ralf