further package removals/potential package removals

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 24 05:55:43 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 04:59 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 12:01 -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Possibly joe also ought to go to extras nowdays.
> Is there any wordstar compatible editor in Core?
> 
> To me, seeing joe removed would be a severe regression. >15 years of
> using wordstar compatible editors can't simply be ignored.

The old way of thinking about this has got to go.  _Moving_ something to
Extras is not the same thing as removing it from the distro.

We have got to stop thinking of moving something to Extras as removing
it from the distro.  Core is not the distro, it is merely a part of the
distro.  Extras is another part.

-- 
        Peter




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