On May 24, 2011, at 3:49 AM, Klaus Kaempf wrote: > * 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. >
Known. >> >> 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' > This is of course exactly the opposite of what you said here > ... By putting it into > the package, you get a clearly defined place, clear semantics, and > packagers don't have to edit multiple places. Which is it: "putting it into the package" or dynamic? >> >> 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. > I could argue "packagers knowledge", but hey, I'm just the gut with 13 years of RPM experience and 14+ releases and many many builds. > 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. > Praise Bob! Slack ensues and dead cows litter the fields! (and obscure reference to the Church of the Sub-Genius) 73 de Jeff
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