Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > For the moment our politics are to limit as much as possible the amount of
> > non open-source stuff on main installation CD [which is, now, CD
> > Installation and CD Extension]
>
> OK, what however could be provided is some kind of "rpm-wrapper" for
> these "closed software" programs. Maybe some kind of mechanism can be
> made which performs the following tasks:
>
> - An icon show up in a "to be installed closed software menu"
> - When you click the icon, the software will be downloaded from the
> software makers site ($un Micro$y$tem$ in this case) and an RPM
> will be made & installed.
> - Key is that the rpm which is made is "taylored" for mandrake. Which
> means that the menu items are in place, the files are placed in a
> work-able
> place on the disk (according to the FS standards that mandrake lives
> to),
> etc. etc. etc.
so we would have to work hard for "tayloring" closed apps, eating some
time that could be used to package free software apps?
I'm not sure there will be very much Mandrakesoft employees to do that..
--
Guillaume Cottenceau
