Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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).
I still like to see this, Adrian is on vacation right now, I'll have to check with him the status of this. > > 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. Thunderbird is on the distro already, so this is taken care of. > 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 ;)). Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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