On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:00, Stephan Kulow wrote: > > Am Donnerstag 08 März 2007 schrieb Randall R Schulz: > > > > How many openSUSE users you think might require it? I'd go for 5 > > > > to 10. We're currently trying to get such packages out of the > > > > product everyone has to download and put them in opensuse > > > > buildservice repositories. And if you haven't yet, I suggest you > > > > get an account to upload the package. > > > > > > Do you really think there are only 5 or 10 programmers using > > > openSUSE? > > > > Hmm, you want to tell me every programmer needs cvsgraph? I wonder > > how I managed to program so far without it. > > I don't know. Give it a try. > > CVS and Subversion are the most widely used open-source version > control / source code management systems and both are included in > openSUSE. Many users of one or both of these also use ViewVC or > ViewCVS. This is also included. There's one missing piece: cvsgraph > (optional support for which is built into ViewVC). I believe there's a > large number of people who would like to have the additional > functionality provided by it and that the complete set of related > packages should be included. > > But what are the criteria for inclusion? What percent of the users must > use a package to get it included? > > If you start with this offhand "I don't need it and don't see why more > than a handful of users would" justification for excluding packages > (explicitly requested packages, no less), then where does it end? With > an operating system release with no more application software than MS > Windows? Of course not, but I'd strongly prefer continuing in the other > direction--"all comers welcome."
Thank you for support. That's exactly my point of view. -- Regards Andreas Vetter
