On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:08:49PM +0000, Olivier Thauvin wrote: > 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.
Olivier, You're missing the point. If we do that then people will expect us to always provide updates to contrib. If a volunteer contributor doesn't feel like updating a package that leaves it to vdanen to do. vdanen has to do updates for main for the following platforms: 7.2/x86, SNF, 8.0/x86, 8.1/x86, 8.2/x86, 9.0/x86, 8.0/ppc, 8.2/ppc, 8.1/ia64 What you're asking for is impossible. He works his ass off just to get the above platforms done. To double the amount of possible packages he would have to worry about just isn't feasable. Now if everyone here wants to pitch in and come up with some cash so vdanen can get someone to help him do security updates on a full time basis, then things might be different. But I really don't see that happening. Further updates already takes up 5.3G on the mirrors. Adding updates would only increase the size of that even greator. Making it too big is very likely to cause mirrors to stop carrying it. And then you could run into problems even getting updates for main. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
