PROPOSAL: Core size reduction "bug day"

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Sun Jul 25 01:11:29 UTC 2004


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, David Nielsen wrote:

> As everyone probably knows a few days ago a suggestion was brought up
> that we start moving none essential stuff like KDE, XFce and a lot of
> the other duplication into Extras in order to reduce the size of Core.
>
> I'm hereby proposing we hold a bug day on IRC, Saturday the 31th to
> debate the possibility of such an action and which programs to move in
> that is the case.
>
> So far people have express a desire to move:
> KDE

As far as I'm concerned / In my opinion / yada-yada-yada...

Removing KDE form CORE would relegate it to second-class citizien (which 
many KDE users already perceive it to be under Fedora).  This would 
be a deal-breaker, and would result in many folks switching distros.  In 
short, don't even think about it.

-- Rex





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