On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 08:45:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sure, but they need to be available *where the user can find it > > conveniently*. It's pointless adding it to yet another site. Maybe there > > should be an item in MandrakeGalaxy "Install more software"? > > wouldn't really help much IMO. > All imho: > the real problem here I think is a support issue. If Mandrake wanted they > could have added an urpmi source for contribs in 2 hours, with a nice > mirrorlist et al (just like the current urpmi source for updates). > > However, it is being blocked because contribs cannot be made part of > distro because they will have to support it (now, why doesn't someone just > say so clearly?). This is ofcourse also the reason there are no updates > for contrib.
It has been said clearly... many many many times. contribs is *entirely* unsupported. I don't know how many different ways I need to say the same thing. =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ Online Security Resource Book; http://linsec.ca/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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