The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have undergone significant changes for Fedora Core 6. For easier access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the installation system.
The following packages have been split into several packages to improve performance and manageability as noted:
gnome-utils
beagle, which no longer depends on Evolution
evince, which no longer depends on Nautilus
NetworkManager, which no longer depends on bind and caching-nameserver
The php package has been split to separate the command line binary from the CGI executable.
A new version of e2fsprogs included in this
release has a number of bug fixes. The
ext2online feature has been integrated into
resize2fs, so the ext2online
program has been removed from this package.
The Fedora Project Board initiated a licensing audit to ensure all software included in Fedora Core is compliant with the package licensing guidelines. This process is now complete, and several changes were made as a result:
The openmotif package has been dropped due to a non-free license. Software packages previously dependent on the openmotif library have been rebuilt to use lesstif.
The macutils package has been dropped due to a non-free license.
The ckermit package has been dropped due to a non-free license.
The cleanfeed package has been dropped due to a non-free license.
The aspell-nl package has been changed to include GPL licensed data.
The crypto-utils package has been changed to remove PGP licensed code in favor of new GPL licensed code.
The netpbm package has been changed to remove all unlicensed or improper files from the source tarball.