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> This package was missing from 9.0 also.  I think it is a feature, not a
> bug. The package is huge, and since everyone wnats 650MB iso's, it's going
> to get left out.  Easily fixed with a web download, it would be nice if
> this was documented though.

  Indeed, and I've heard a number of people complain about it. The people 
least likely to feel confident finding and installing the package are also 
probably the people who will want it the most.

> Yes, it is true.  There was a big thread about this on the newbie (or was
> it expert) list a few weeks ago and just this sentiment was expressed.  I
> think it is important for people to understand what MandrakeSoft says these
> things mean though, not what people think they should mean.  Whether it is
> there responsibility to search this info out, or MandrakeSoft's
> responsibility to make it more available is the subject of another
> discussion.

  That's true. Although. I think Mandrake could do itself a big favor by just 
sticking to the standard definitions of these things. Generally a release 
candidate is a distro (or software) that has all of its features stablized 
and potentially *could* be the release. RC1 especially, but even RC2, are not 
that type of release. 

  For example the KDE RC's are usually quite stable, and the last RC is 
generally almost identical to final just because the last RC is the last RC 
because no more major issues have been found. Of course, others might want to 
apply different meaning to RC's, but then you are going to suffer some 
inevitiable confusion.

 -Tim

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