-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Schneider wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:18 +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 07:14:00PM +0100, Ben wrote: >>>> Op zondag 4 december 2005 18:40, schreef Alexey Eremenko: >>>>> I really believe that the CD version must have Thunderbird. >>>>> I vote for it ! >>>> I agree with this >>> Open a bugreport, assign best to category "Selections" or so. >> >> The question is: What can we take down from the distro instead? I >> don't want to go to another CD... > > To avoid having to add another CD can a question be posed during the > post install setup to add a YaST repository mirror for these additional > selections? This way any new SUSE users will have access to additional > packages without becoming frustrated as to where additional packages can > be downloaded from. It will be automatically setup for them. Or have > smart setup automatically during install.
Basically, this would be a great benefit for end users, even more so if you consider adding some community repositories (such as packman, mine (suser-guru), and a few others). We (community packagers) started to discuss this with the SUSE Linux project/product management but the discussion showed a few issues, mainly being the fact that some repositories provide software that is not legally distributable in any country (most specifically... not in the US), such as mad, lame, MPlayer, etc... The Novell legal dept was to check that but we didn't have any feedback yet, which is also my own fault as I didn't ask Adrian about the progress of that task (and god knows Adrian and AJ have gazillions of things to do). Now, back to Thunderbird... Also consider that if you add a package to maintain, it also includes support, security fixes, QA cycles, etc... It's not just being on the installation media, it's also the full QA cycle packages undergo when being part of the core distribution. Personally, I'd vote +1 because Thunderbird is one of the major MUAs out there, most probably used as much as KMail or Evolution... but also a pain to package and maintain (similar to Firefox, I guess ;)). cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDlDnqr3NMWliFcXcRAsetAJ4wkYF3rukOTAuNITtMcQDYz+LyhQCeLvdE mMYo/pvWkJmfBO5ik9QiP6o= =o1D2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
