Moving ImageMagick to Extras?

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> said:
> How can this be a bad thing?  Once we get to the point
> where we spin ISO sets that are Core and Extras packages to complete a
> theme or goal (Fedora Desktop, Fedora Web Server, Fedora Development,
> etc..) then does it _really_ matter if its in Core or Extras?  This is
> why I said "yet" as we need to get to where "shipped" isos have the
> content necessary for that goal of theme.

I think the resistance is because Extras _today_ is a "second class
citizen" WRT installs.  At some point, hopefully that won't be true, but
there is no denying it _today_.  Things have been pushed to Extras for a
bit now with the promise of easy install in the future, but it hasn't
yet materialized.  I'm not complaining; I understand that 5 CDs (with
the 5th already well over half full) is a bit much, but there's another
3G+ of stuff in Extras that it would be nice to install without having
to download each time, and you can't do that with FC5 or FC6T1.

Yes, you can install things from Extras after the fact, but that
requires network access (and to install very much, requires reasonably
high-speed network access).  A cow-orker was complaining about the
"bloat" of GNOME and KDE as reasons for not installing Fedora, so I
suggested he try XFCE.  However, today, you pretty much have to install
GNOME or KDE, get on the network, and then install XFCE.

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.