On Sep 20, 2010, at 7:07 AM, Thomas Lottmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le 20/09/2010 12:53, atilla ontas a écrit :
>> Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
>> won't placed in official repos. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
>> tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
>> repository (MVT)
>
> Just a not : I am against this form of packaging only for a group of people.
> Anywhere in the world someone who wants to study a language, turkish for
> xample, may need it. Currently we need to focus all our efforts in Mageias
> official repositories and avoid as much as possible having too many different
> repositories. Programs are usually not territory dependant.
>
> That's out of subject anyway, but I wanted to tell clearly my opinion on
> this. Remember : Mageia takes back the same spirit of easy to use and
> simplicity that comes form Mandriva and Mandrake. Fiddling with many extra
> repositories is then what we do not want to hear about. This would even force
> people to be members or to visit the website to add the repo and then access
> te program they were looking for. So, that's just no to me.
+1
The easiest it is for the user, the better.
Now with globalization, you can find anywhere on the world someone from
anywhere of the world.
As an ex-pat I know what I'm talking about.
Salut,
Sinner
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