2008/6/25 Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:15:57 -0700 Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So you're recommending creating a contrib consolidation for these to >> be checked into and built from? > > If he won't, I will. There are a number of reasons for this: > > - Having a single "blessed" place that it's easy to add third party > apps to will prevent people from feeling the need to run their own > such repositories, which will eliminate a duplication of effort, > storage waste on the client machines, and user frustration as they > discover that you can't use foo from repo1 with bar from repo2 > because baf that they both depend on was built with different > options in the two repos.
That's another reason why I don't want to see contributions discouraged due to lack of source code access or a good build recipe. The value is in the ecosystem, not in the build process. It's easy to focus on technical excellence, it's much harder to provide a good user experience. -- Shawn Walker _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
