On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Michael Scherer wrote: > I fully agree, but this is what the "client" dreams of. > Even if the gain is not worth the work, if it allow Mandrake to gain some > market share, it may be interesting. >
But it is more important to have real features than marketing hype. > And you forget the fact that being able to rebuild easily a RPM would allow > easier "unsupported" backport of new contribs packages on a stable system. > > And it would be easier for the future to rebuild the distro for a new > architecture. > These are the goals worthwhile for the people on this list, who will probably make most use of the tool. > And, last but not the least , Debian has this sytem ( apt-build, I think ) I don't think we are here to emulate Debian totally ;-). -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
