On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 20:07, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
hi
i saw rawhide has yum. if fedora is going to have yum(i think this is essential) it would good to central apt enabled repostries maintained by redhat while others can have third party repostries for non free and patented stuff like xmms-mp3 plugins aka apt-get.org
The web site discusses Fedora Extras, these will be repositories hosted on the Fedora Project infrastructure with additional packages not found in Core.
But yes nonfree/patented will need to be hosted by third parties. We can't have anything to do with it (can't even link to it).
how about some home user focus. wouldnt that be possible?
Anything is possible if someone wants to work on it. ;-) The home desktop user isn't the primary focus of Red Hat developers, but we'd certainly welcome anyone hacking on it. We do some work in this area but it's not our main focus.
- single cdrom with one or more optional packages in
other cds
*the installer includes the ability to resize partitons(fat and ntfs) *ntfs support enabled by default
- automatically mount windows partitions in dual boot
systems and put icons on the desktop
Mostly just waiting for patches, though the NTFS and partition resize items will involve satisfying people that there's not a significant risk to user data.
*include rpms from kde-redhat.sf.net with just the theme changed to bluecurve(no changes in the libraries)
kde-redhat.sf.net would be welcome to either hack on the KDE packages in Fedora Core or offer their own alternate KDE packages in Fedora Alternatives, if they're interested. Of course first we have to get the infrastructure set up.
drop kde or gnome altogether and focus on one GUI and polish it to the maximum possible(no redundant menu entries or applications - something like ark or jamd)
Someone might want to investigate doing this as an option (perhaps it's as simple as a new comps group in the installer). However I don't think the distribution should be limited to this.
Anyway, it's not just about what Red Hat developers work on anymore. Anybody can drive the project in a different direction by developing the code and making a case for including it.
Havoc