On 20 September 2010 12:32, atilla ontas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm agree with this opinion as i wrote a minute ago to the UK user > community? subject. But as you know we, therd party packagers are not > well experienced packagers. An official packager should review our > packages and aasist to correct issues. So, we can learn more and > provide better packages. As a result users can reach their needs from > official contrib or communtiy repo. > > 2010/9/20 Oliver Burger <[email protected]>: > > I totally agree with Thomas, > > > > as some may know, the German community has their own repo as well. The > reason > > was the somehow difficult procedure in contributing packages to Mandriva. > > But: we have decided to contribute to mageia directly in the future. Like > > Thomas said, many Third-party repos make it difficult for the users to > find and > > install packages. It also leads to dependency problems sometimes, when > > packages from different third party repos collide. > > And even if there are packages which are only of use to people with some > > language, nationality and so on. Why shouldn't they be in the official > repos. > > E.g. I don't speak any asian language but the tools for those languages > did > > never disturb me. They were just there in the repo without ane > sideeffects to > > my system... > > > > Oliver > > > > Thomas Lottmann <[email protected]> > >> 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. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mageia-discuss mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > > > Oliver Burger > > [email protected] > > > > in medias res Gesellschaft für Informationstechnologie mbH > > Schwimmbadstr. 2 > > 79100 Freiburg > > > > Tel: +49 (0)761 705798101 > > Fax: +49 (0)761 70579809 > > > > http://www.webgis.de / http://www.zopecms.de > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Geschäftsführer: Stefan Giese, Dr. Christof Lindenbeck > > Eingetragen im Handelsregister HRB 5930 beim Amtsgericht Freiburg > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > +++ Aufwind durch Wissen! +++ > > Qualifizierte Open Source Schulungen bei der > > Foss-Academy: http://www.foss-akademie.de/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Mageia-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > yes i totaly agree with this. 1 collection of packages available for all
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