[WBEL-devel] ncurses4

[Jamey Fletcher]

donavan nelson wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:45:47 -0500 (EST), John A. Tamplin wrote

>> If possible, I would like to suggest ncurses4 from the fedora 
>> distribution be included in WBEL and available under the 
>> compatibility libraries section of the install as an optional 
>> package.  I have a number of old commercial applications that need
>> it.

> While I generally see this as a good idea, this pushes the intended
> purpose of WBEL.  I do however believe this would be more suited to
> an "Extras" type of disk.  I'm thinking that WBEL should be as close
> to the RHEL core as possible.

> Perhaps John will chime in here and offer his thoughts as well (I
> know several others will).

John is thinking along the lines of a powertools disk, but definitely 
not something he wants to get involved with maintaining updates for. 
More or less, packages *we* will need to add for the Library's purposes 
will get done, and he'll be happy to make them available for others - 
such as OOo 1.1 - and on that basis, other contributions to the 
powertools disk will probably be appreciated.  Another question he's 
thinking is wondering what the quarterly updates will involve - just a 
massive batch of non-security related bug-fixes - or if they'll respin 
the ISOs.  And if so, does he want to go as far to respin the ISOs each 
quarter, or perhaps just twice a year?  Remember, this is a sideline for 
him - he started this because we need a distro for use here at the 
Library.  We've got five or six servers, 30 or so staff workstations, 
and another 30 or so patron workstations.

It's a fun thing, and it's gotten bigger, faster, than we expected - 
hell, LWN is subscribed to the -announce list, following the security 
updates!