Re: [Cooker] Helix Gnome + Mandrake menus (mdk7.1)

[Bryan Paxton]

On Thu, 03 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> 
>
> IMHO, you're wrong. It's not to Mandrake to keep compliant with
> Helix-GNOME but to Helix-GNOME to keep compliant with Mandrake
> distribution (and others Linux distributions). They ship different
> packages for different distributions, they are not distributions makers
> but they ship alternatives (Mandrake, SuSE, etc.) or complements
> (Caldera) to Linux distributions. So, if they really want to be used by
> users, they need to adapt their packages to each distributions. They do
> it, a little, but don't respect each distributions specifications. It's
> bad and sad.

heh I would think they're a little busy coding, I think it's great that they 
even try to keep the spec files indepenent to each distro as much as they do.
But then again, maybe they're right and they should do all the work and we 
simply reap all the benefits.........

Bryan Paxton