Elliot Lee wrote :
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Gene C. wrote:
> 1. I agree with those who want to expand the FC4 set to 5 CD images and
> then put the big reduction effort into the FC5 timeframe when anaconda
> can/should be able to handle multiple "respositories" (and, homefully,
> pup also).
Something that needs to be mentioned - it was decided that it was better
to go to 5 CDs for now than to kick eclipse and the Java stuff out.
However, there is plenty of other stuff that can be moved to Extras right
now, and as you've seen that has already been happening (maintainers
still wanted for some of that stuff!).
For clearly obsolete stuff (input methods...) I really don't mind packages
being removed, but I see at least 3 issues with what got dropped :
- Exim was removed... it's tiny, and was in FC3, so that's
probably a bad idea.
- Xfce was removed... this leaves FC with no lightweight desktop
manager, and it was in FC3 AFAIR, so again...
- Both tuxracer and bzflag were removed, but many people (Havoc,
Alan) definitely want at least one good 3D game to "show off".
I don't have strong feelings about sylpheed, abiword/gnumeric and most (if
not all) of the others, but for these 3 points, I definitely do.
Matthias
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