I agree, but why try to give two versions of Fedora. As stated earlier in this thread, it's not for enterprise consumption, ti's not what the developers have in mind when they are working on this.
-----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Porter [mailto:shiva@sewingwitch.com] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 7:03 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Inappropriate content in Fedora Core 2
--On Friday, August 06, 2004 6:14 PM -0400 jludwig wralphie@comcast.net wrote:
So does this mean everyone wants their own selfish interests? I thought this list was to further Fedora's growth and help make it grow.
The two are not incompatible. If you're on this list, presumably it's in your selfish interest to see Fedora succeed. (Note that success doesn't require growth. It may help, but I don't think it's a defining criterion.)
More importantly, what constitutes success? To me, freedom from one country's stifling employment laws and several countries' barbaric mores is important. But that's more a packaging issue, and is already under discussion in the dev group: What belongs in Core, and what belongs in Extras?
I'd argue that any "decorative" parts of Fedora belong in Extras, including any sample content. But that makes the packaging problem tougher because most packages come with their sample content as part of the same tarball, and the RPM paradigm is to put the whole shebang in one SRPM, which is used to build several binary RPM's. To accommodate separation of content from function, we'd need to be able to split binary packages from a common SRPM between Core and Extras. So a corporate user wanting source to a corporate-only binary package would get the tarball that includes all the un-corporate extras.
Question: How much sample content comes with a package like GIMP? What other programs come with lots of samples?
The problem also gets harder when we consider graphic content that's part of the UI, like toolbar icons. We (the Fedora community) can ship a fairly tame skin in Core and any "un-corporate" skins in Extras, but that is again a non-trivial packaging problem.