Currently the release notes give a simple list of all packages dropped from Core: " === Packages Moved Out Of Core === This is a new section to the release notes. This is based on a treediff of dist-fc3 and dist-fc4 on 04-MAY-2005. The following packages have been moved out of core from Fedora Core 4: " I think it would be nice to add at least a link to Fedora Extras (ideally a note of current state of package within the Extras process, but I'm not volunteering to do that). Perhaps add some text like this: "Many of these packages have been moved to the Fedora Extras project. For more information on Fedora Extras see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras " Version of release notes this bug refers to: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/beta/release-notes-en/fc4-relnotes Fedora Core 4 final release
Please add the following content to the release notes Fedora Extras is part of the larger Fedora Project and is a volunteers based community effort to create a repository of packages that compliment Fedora Core. Fedora Extras repository is enabled by default from Fedora Core 4 onwards. You can lean more about Fedora Extras from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras If you would like to install any software available from Fedora extras you can use yum. yum install <packagename>, Example: #yum install abiword The above would download and install the abiword package and all its required dependencies automatically. Packages moved into Fedora Extras abiword aiksaurus bzflag cyrus-imapd dbh dietlibc exim freeciv gnuchess gnumeric grip jed lapack libgda libgnomedb libxfce4mcs libxfce4util libxfcegui ncftp ots sylpheed system-switch-im xcin xemacs xemacs-sumo xfce4-iconbox xfce4-panel xfce4-systray xfce-mcs-manager xfce-mcs-plugins xfce-utils xfdesktop xffm xffm-icons xfprint xfwm4 xfwm4 xmms
Note to add regarding XMMS: <mether> quaid, reason: XMMS is being moved into Fedora Extras since Rythmbox is the default audio player. XMMS uses the GTK1 toolkit which is no longer maintained and does not support important features like i18n and the gstreamer framework can be a good rationale
Extras how-to information included in section on yum. List of moved packages added to final FC4 relnotes in section titled "Packages Moved to Fedora Extras". This list seems rather complete, I hope it is entirely complete. :)