2009/5/3 Angel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.com.ve>:
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Xyne <xyne@archlinux.ca> wrote:
What defines "necessary" when dealing with community packages? I thought core and extra were for "necessary" packages while community was for packages that the community wanted. Where does necessity enter into it? Community wasn't even enabled by default before and yet people managed to run their systems. This seems to be the definition of another word on which we disagree.
Common sens people, games are not necessary software, games are optional software, necessary software is that which means "productivity" or "required" (like drivers, etc).
I hope you don't mind if I chime in here, since I'm not a TU, but a lot of software isn't necessary and are just optional software. For example, are desktop environments like GNOME/KDE/XFCE necessary when we have perfectly good window managers, panels, and other things which do the same thing? What about OpenOffice/KOffice/GNOME Office/etc? People don't need those, and (imo) learning LaTeX increases productivity. It follows the same line of thought. While you don't find the games necessary, other people do, as games can get rid of stress after a hard day at work (for example). Smartboy