On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 16/11/10 22:06, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the > > download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the > > public. "Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is > > only meant to be used by us developers." Or something like this. Maybe > > a bit exaggerated. > > Slightly exaggerated. But perhaps we do need that to keep people from > forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting towards > anything around here. > > Allan
I thought this idea of Heiko's was a great idea, myself. In a fit of inspiration, here's a suggestion. This would be placed after the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the 3-paragraph description. "This community involvement allows developers to focus on what's most important to them in the knowledge that the community will provide high quality packages for everything else." Just a draft, doesn't really express everything yet. Should I open a bug-report? And Heiko, I'm not sure why you're making a big fuss over these packages. Its not even much harder to work from the AUR. Comparisons to Gentoo are ridiculous. I've got 75 packages from the AUR currently, and I don't spend hours a day compiling. The longest package to compile is probably samba4 at 20 minutes, followed by the kernel at 10 minutes (optimized), everything else tops out at 1-2 minutes. Go have a cup of coffee, and consider the difference to the hours and hours you'd have spent compiling world on Gentoo.
