15 Oct
2007
15 Oct
'07
2:49 a.m.
I don't know what people have against games or scientific packages. The whole niche thing is subjective. One could argue that some core packages are niche packages like screen which is probably used by a minority of users. What about the wireless drivers? Tom has asked for testers for wlan-ng and no one came forward. We didn't concluded that it's a niche packages that should be moved to community.
Wireless drivers are a bad example. Some people use those for..you know.. getting on a network. That is fairly important from the perspective of a network distribution like arch.