On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Texstar wrote: > > > On the other hand, if you cooperated a bit more, you could fit well with > > the distribution like PLF and JPackage do now, but maybe you don't care > > if your RPMS integrate well or not. This sounds like your personal > > project you don't want to share. It's ultimately your (and your user's) > > choice as to whether that matters or not. I just bring it up in case you > > do care, and if it could safely be added to urpmi without screwing other > > things up, it would bring you more users as well (if that's what your > > main goal is, I don't know). > > > > You are correct, it is a personal project page that has nothing to do with > anything here just like many of the other pages people post up. I did try to > cooperate at one time about a year ago.
Was this regarding an account with rights to upload to contrib? Did you follow it up? And a number of people who put up those other pages are starting to contribute to cooker/MandrakeClub, so that their packages are useful to more people. > Not sure what happened but no big > deal, I just posted my stuff on my website. If I continue to use this distro, > I will probably hook up with plf after the first of the year. Sorry, I guess I sounded a bit antagonistic in the previous mail, but I *really* *really* *really* hate duplication of work, which is why virtually all my RPMs now go into one of these places: 1)Samba ftp server (RPMs of latest stable samba for as many releases as I have a machine to build on) 2)contrib 3)MandrakeClub 4)PLF If any RPMs don't fit in one of those places, I dump them on ranger.dnsalias.com. Ideally, these are the minority. I have left the RPMS from before I decided on this up though. If all the non-Mandrakesoft people on this list didn't package, we would all be the worse for it. People that come to mind are Oden, Goetz, Olivier, Guillaume Rousse, but there are many more. At present there is a lot of duplication (and incompatible duplication) of work between what you do, and what other Mandrake-related projects do. I just don't see the point of seperately maintained and incompatible (using different package names) packages. I would hope you reconsider your stance. Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
