On Thursday 27 Jun 2002 14:31, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Le Jeudi 27 Juin 2002 12:51, Peter Ruskin a écrit : > > Would it be possible to identify which contrib packages are > > installable to 8.2, cooker or both? > > No more than to identify main package from cooker that are installable > on 8.2. Some do, some don't. > > > Perhaps sub-directories of Mandrake-devel/contrib, the way plf does > > it? > > Contrib packages for 8.2 are in mandrake directory > Contrib packages for cooker are in mandrake-devel directory > It is not just a subdirectory question, it is a question of maintaining > packages for a target distribution, which is costly. Ask Buchan, if you > want details :-)
Nuff said. I see that cost of maintenance must be the real problem, so the only answer is suck it and see if I want to try cooker contribs on 8.2. > Rebuilding from source solves only binary dependencies, not actual > setup differences. Think of kde3 setup differences between 8.2 and > cooker, for instance. -- Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Bluebird) for i586 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ 512MB Kernel: 2.4.18-6mdk-pnr-win4lin KDE: 3.0.1 Qt: 3.0.4 up 31 minutes. ~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~
