On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:39:19PM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote: > i just came across this discussion of an issue with the perl packages in > fedora. the actual issue is not so large but it opens a great discussion > on the roles of distributions, packagers and upstream, and touches on > the goals of foresight: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/348084/
linked from the above discussion there is an older article with a related discussion on a report from last years linux.conf.au on disintermediating distributions: http://lwn.net/Articles/267810/ the interesting comments are at the end, skip through the autoconf discussion until about 3/4 down. (search for "GNOME" in the comments) greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix searching contract jobs: programming, training and administration - anywhere -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org open-steam.org unix sysadmin iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at caudium.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ is.schon.org _______________________________________________ Foresight-devel mailing list Foresight-devel@lists.rpath.org http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-devel
