* Jeff Johnson <n3...@mac.com> [May 24. 2011 03:13]: > > Well there _IS_ a need, just a litter of Suggests: et al hints isn't > the best approach imho.
Agreed, its certainly not the best approach but better than nothing imho. At the last OpenSUSE conference we had a discussion about an 'app installer' providing additional information for packages. One suggestion was 'social rating', kinda 'like' button for packages. > > The "preference" equivalent is "best" or "worst" (and their weaker forms > "better" and "worse" > and there's no obviously objective way to score that. Yes there are > approaches, > I tend to favor statistical approaches like "voting" (but there are issues > there too > with malicious tampering with the voting results). And this information is dynamic and should come from an online service and not be put into the package, where its 'frozen' > > There's a number of approaches, but asking a vendor or a packager > Is this package "good"? > isn't the right approach (and that is built into Suggests: et al). End users > have > preferences, not vendors/packagers. Absolutely ! However, its also a matter of knowledge and experience. As of today, packagers have this knowledge and letting them put this into the spec file is a simple way to make this knowledge accessible. There might be a not too distant future where end users also have this knowledge and(!) a way to share this knowledge with others. IIRC people at freedesktop.org are discussing possible solutions. Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
