On Sunday 11 September 2005 6:53 pm, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: > I've been reading most of the thread on package creation and trust and > I still think we should be considering a different approach of > allowing direct involvement and participation of third parties on the > construction of OpenSUSE. > > I believe having a lot of packages (without allowing redundant > packages) would be good, even if some of them are not as properly > maintained as they could be.
Well, as an end-user my perspective differs. I plan to buy the box set when it comes out in October. As far as I'm concerned, the quality of the packages is a direct reflection on Novell/SUSE. If there are broken or low low quality packages, it will reflect poorly on Novell/SUSE. Now, if you are simply talking about making a repository of packages available (but not on the official DVD/CD's I buy from SUSE), then that's a different matter, but if it's in the boxed set I buy, SUSE is 100% responsible in my mind. I don't think it would be a good business decision to allow any low quality items into the official distro. Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
