Le dim 19/10/2003 � 17:15, G�tz Waschk a �crit : > > The Idea is not weather or not to include them but were to include > > them. Who are they trying to market with the free download edition. > > Developers I sure hope not as allot of the devel libs and things > > that are needed are not really in there. To get a good devel box > > going you may need libs out of contribs along with the devel > > counterparts and many other things. It gets even worse if you > > develop for gnome as a fair amount of gnome libs are in contribs. Hm > > so if the free version is not geared to developers per say who is it > > marketed to? It should be first priority to find the target market > > and target them. > > I don't care about the business effects of this, but I think a Linux > distribution needs the two most common developer's editors, emacs and > vim.
But the discovery pack does not need this > Without them, you can't take a distribution seriously. Sure, the > bootsplash and kde themes toys are important for the first impression, > but the usefulness of the included software create the quality of the > distribution. What's more useful, GNU emacs, which is God and can do > everything, or kde screensavers, which are eye candy but don't > increase your productivity. yes, they increase my screen lifetime ! :p I have several workstations, and people a=on these wortkstation doesn't use emacs/vi/... We need vi as this is the default editor for rescue, but the minimal version. In discovery pack emacs is not needed. Normal users like toys, normal users like having a beatiful like system/OS, normal users like some fancy screensavers ( look in windows world all the different kind of screensaver you can dl on the net ). Discovery pack is for normal users. I think we need 3 rpms trees : - the first tree will be the base for discovery pack, - the second add all the others packages ( so is include in powerpack and more, the third iso in dl edition ) - and the third tree remains the contrib one --- L'Amour pour principe, l'Ordre pour base, et le Progres pour but. -- Auguste Comte, Systeme de politique positive
