On Sunday 30 October 2005 11:24, Kenneth Aar wrote: > Janne Karhunen wrote: > > RPM is a powerful tool for system administrator, but as ironic as > > it is, end user is much happier with windows installer :/. > > Or CNR in Linspire... ;p > > I really think dependency hell could be avoided if the Open source > community could begin to consolidate a few things. > > Take bugzilla for instance. Why hasn't anyone come up with the idea of > making bugs easily available across distros and up and downstream > searchable/redirectable? This way if a bug is filed in the wrong place > we could redirect the bug to the right place without need for filing the > bug again. Also if the bug is reported in different places or indeed is > filed in several distros by different users we could more easily see > where we should put our focus. Or if this is a up or downstream issue.
See article on Mark Shuttleworth in Linux Format Magazine October 2005 where he talks about not only this issue of distributing patches between distros but also the more general one of truly collaborative computing. Paul -- Paul Hewlett - CottonPickinMinds - www.cottonpickinminds.co.za Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 84 420 9282 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
