On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:04, Stephen Harris wrote: > Jose' Matos wrote: > > > > Things have improved a lot meanwhile. It is on my plans to have a ready > > to go system for fedora as, I am sure, there are for other linux > > distributions. > > You know best! Is there an objective method used in determining > if Gnome or KDE, Nedit or LyX, goes into the primary distribution > while the other contender is placed into extras? I was thinking if > statistics were kept on "yum install foo" downloads (not who did it) > that the frequency of download would be an objective measure. Maybe > that would only work if both similar programs started in extras.
It is not easy to explain, some of the reasons are historical, and the border between Core and Extras is becoming blurred (and this is good). The goal for upcoming versions is for the Extras to be included in the installation process. That will mean a support for installing either from the network or from supplementary cd's or dvd's. Things are improving a lot and I like the way it is coming. :-) > I gave the Chris Karakas instructions a try, but it became hard > to obtain the packages or the right versions, maybe that was on > Cygwin; it was harder than following Michael Gertz instuctions! I intend to look his document after July (I am really busy now), I have several ideas how things can improve regarding lyx and docbook. > I think yum or other programs like it, is the single best reason > to use Linux rather than Windows. I can remember if you wanted to > install a new program which would take 10 minutes, finding and > installing all the dependencies could take an hour, even if they > were listed beforehand and I don't think they were always listed. > Maybe I should have used the word default rather than primary. :-) > My final question. I was reading about fontconfig because of > installing the Bakoma fonts which are in zip format into Cygwin. > (This is something easy to do in Windows, install fonts.) > I read there is a dependency to freetype. The freetype page > mentions there is a new May31,06 version of KDE which doesn't > have security problems because it uses fontconfig without > freetype. Also it mentions an rpm freetype patch package suitable > for using with Cygwin's rpm package. So does yum or rpm, when it > installs fonts, write to those associated .conf files (fc-cache)? No idea. :-( > Best regards, -- José Abílio
