Re: further package removals/potential package removals

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Stuart Children wrote:

> I see Core as "packages managed mainly by RedHat employees and essential to a 
> base [desktop|server] system" (latter is horribly subjective I know), and 
> Extras as "packages mainly packaged by non-RedHat employees", with the extra 
> requirement that no package in Core should depend on a package in Extras. 
> Both are parts of the overall distribution, but Core simply has stricter QC 
> and inclusion requirements.

(Ironic or not) since Fedora Extras (at least the fedora.us incarnation) 
actually has QA *before* packages are published, IMO, their packaging 
quality is at least as good or better than many of those in Core.

--Rex