fc5 goals

[Yuri Prushinsky]

Paul A Houle wrote:
> Yuri Prushinsky wrote:
> 
>> desktop manager is not the correct decision for removal, the more 
>> important is to move typical productivity 3rd party applications to 
>> Extras. I'm a KDE user, with every new release of Gnome I try to 
>> switch to it, but it's just not usable for me, sorry guys.
>>     So, I decided to delete apps that I never use, yum remove mozilla 
>> wiped out mozilla with a bunch of gnome-related packages. Fine, I 
>> don't need the beta of OOo, yum remove openoffice removed one and 
>> about 100 gnome-related packages! Rpm-hell is alive, and waits you 
>> under yum!
>>     Okay, now I have my lovely kdm, kde, and 3rd party firefox and the 
>> latest OOo, which have their own installators.
>> I really like the kind of Core that freeBSD provides, and it would be 
>> nice if FC will have the same tool set in its core.
>>
>    I've said it before,  but...
> 
>    If you don't like the package set chosen in Fedora core,  go ahead 
> and roll your own "Hard Core" linux.
> 
>    Fedora comes with a set of tools that will turn a directory full of 
> rpm's into a linux distribution you can burn onto an ISO.  Create a 
> .torrent and you can share it with everybody.  If you just want to 
> subset Fedora,  this ought to be easy.
> 
sure, but it seems not to be such a trivial solution at the FC4 state..

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Sincerely yours,
  Yura