Holger Freyther wrote:
Am 08.06.2006 um 08:22 schrieb Lorn Potter:
actually, the most effective approach would be to not include any
package you are not willing to support.
Does any major distribution put a nag screen on any 'unmaintained'
software they distribute?
I agree with the above but I must clarify something:
OpenEmbedded is not a 'Distribution' in the sense of Debian, Fedora,
Ubuntu. The OpenEmbedded project distributes MetaData allowing others to
create and brand their distributions.
bah! detail details..
For the sake of quality OpenZaurus, Familiar, OpenSlug - distributions
that build on OpenEmbedded's MetaData - should not ship these packages
but I'm not here to make any policy for these distributions.
so its oe policy to add every application under the sun regardless of
whether its code is maintained and updated? and then hack in a nag
screen to tell users they shouldn't be using it, nor is the app
supported? why not just hack in a "donate to my paypal" dialog while
your at it?
So oe grows and grows until we all have to download such heaps of
metadata that we are drown in it?
a better method might be to dynamically download only the 'metadata'
thats needed for a certain configuration.
--
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
fluffbuster
Trolltech Qtopia Community Manager
Opie Core Developer
http://qtopia.net
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