Including OO templates in fc4

[Michael Favia]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:50:51 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
><kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
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>>I probably could, but i simply just don't think this is an extras
>>candidate. Users simply expect templates to be there, or at least a box
>>"you need to install xxx from yyy to get templates".
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>Users expect which templates to be there?  You could problably make a
>case for a few very specific templates.. IF upstream oo.org also
>includes them.  But you certaintly can't argue that all possible extra
>oo.org templates need to be in Core.
>
>In fact.. i regard templates as being similar to something like a
>theme or a skin or a background. The vast majority of these things
>should not be in Core... the vast majority shouldn't even be in system
>packages at all and probably should be installed into a user's home
>directory as user data instead of system data.  The thought of
>downloading all possible templates in one package disturbs me as much
>as the thought of having seperate packages for each template makes me
>ill.
>
To this end you would like to be able to update the Templates package[s] 
on its its/their own best schedule. By breaking it apart you provide 
improved functionality IMO.
-mf