On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:13:49PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:37:10PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > > ?????????????
> > >
> > > You should do a little bit of packaging before saying such <beep><beep>.
> >
> > But he's right! Aren't there patches made by Mandrake in these packages?
> > So it is not the original source anymore.
>
> Two points:
>
> 1. 1mdk (or 2mdk or anything) DOESN'T mean that there are patches. This
> depends on the brokenness of the code (roughly), not on the number of
> the release.
Well, sure, 1mdk doesn't mean this, but 17mdk quite often means, or have a
look at the kernel. The kernel is far more enhanced than the plain "linus"
kernel is. But that's fine, because:
>
> 2. Do you know any distribution where they provide original source
> unpatched? There are simply not, the aim of a distribution is to
> provide some fixed (e.g. working) versions of the sources!!!
Of course. I didn't say that it was bad or anything. I plainly said (or
thought I did:]) that there are patches in the packages and that it is no
longer the "original" package.
But I don't have a problem with that. As long as it runs, and much more so
when it runs even better than the plain source, I'm totally happy.
Alexander Skwar
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