Le Mardi 22 Octobre 2002 17:27, Vincent Danen a �crit : > On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 01:13 PM, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> > To expect us to put contribs into updates takes away the distinction > between main and contribs. Only main is supported. Only main packages > will ever be in updates. That's just the way it is. It is not the uniq difference, contrib is maintain by lot of poeple who don't works for mandrake, then if this poeple can upload on contrib, maybe they want maintain it too. > > The "Mandrake with security holes" statement is ridiculous. contribs > is just as much a part of Mandrake as is downloading something from the > net and building it yourself. Are we expected to provide updates for > everything you might possibly download? Mandrake is *main*... Mandrake > is not contribs. To say that Mandrake has security holes because > contribs is unsupported is silly. I don't say that, I say Mandrake don't support contrib but is happy to have lot of package within. Take a look to the powerpack box or installer: "Mandrake is made lot of people in entire world". Then if contrib is made by contributer, maybe like, some poeple want to make fix. I always think to someone who use icecast for his job ! If there are a security hole, we are saying "it is not our problem". If it's me I'll choose to install an other distrib... > Until then, contribs is made by contributors. If contributors want to > make updated packages, that's fine. They can go into Club or somewhere > else. Club is not the good place, IMHO. But if you won't supporte it, I purpose contributor do this job. > > This is not something I am interested in doing, much less debating. It > is not going to happen, so trying to convince me otherwise is merely > wasting your time. I am far too busy maintaining main to start jumping > through hoops to support something that is clearly *un*supported. I am not giving you more works. ;) -- Linux pour Mac !? Enfin le moyen de transformer une pomme en v�ritable ordinateur. - JL. Olivier Thauvin - http://nanardon.homelinux.org/
