On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 14:21 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ken Schneider wrote: <snip> > > > > Precisely why it is the packagers responsibility to provide all of the > > required packages. If it cannot be done legally then the package should > > not be provided at all. CYA > > That's mostly correct. Tell that to the many users who whine about DeCSS, > proprietary codec and MP3 > support ;) > > But on the other hand, we packagers definately want to get together and avoid > having to package > something a dozen times, because > a) it's redundant work, and it's our unpaid spare time > b) it's only causing issues for the end-users, package conflicts, etc.. > > That's why a single repository is not necessarely consistent when used alone, > without some other > repositories. At Packman we do have that rule: don't have dependencies > towards packagers that are > not provided in Packman or in the base SUSE distribution. > But Packman is by far the largest community package repository for SUSE Linux > and it's feasible > there. It is not necessarely doable for other, smaller repositories.
I always include Packman as a YaST repository because it seems to always be complete and not make me chase all over the net looking for a required third party package. Keep up the GOOD work, it is -appreciated- more than you think. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
