Am Mittwoch, den 15.07.2009, 22:05 +0200 schrieb Andrea Florio: > Hi guys, i'm to suggest you something really really intresting from my side. > > > You may don't know, but OBS (openSUSE Build Service) is able to provide > a packaging/debugging platform for a lot of distros. > > I think that the project X11:lxde can become he official lxde.org > repository for several distros. > > deb based: > > Debian Etch > Debian Lenny > *Buntu 6.06 to 9.04 > > rpm based: > mandriva 2008 - 2009 > fedora 10 - 11 > RHEL 4 - 5 > suse 10.3 - 11.1 > > what do you think about it?
OBS is good for developers to provide packages for different distributions without to much hassle. However the quality of these packages is not really good in most cases IMO. People focus on their favorite distribution, but don't really care about others. For example I focus on rpm and it's been a while since I last build a deb. So I have no idea if/how Debian's packaging guidelines have changed in the meantime. We are in the lucky position to have dedicated package maintainers for all distributions you mentioned, so packages are available in the distributions itself and users don't need to add another package repository of unknown quality. If there is a distro or a package missing, it's most likely due to missing requirements. When I was doing RHEL builds last week, I noticed that many packages required a newer version of GTK2, wich is no problem for Fedora, but for RHEL. I guess the same might apply for Ubuntu 6.06 or Debian Etch. To summ it up: OSM is a good tool, but LXDE is happy to not really need it at the current point. > Andrea Kind regards, Christoph ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
