> - your (possibility for) involvement in the packaging tools and build 
>   infrastructure, which we will change to the better, but not immediately, 
>   and not next week.

Not next week?  Pah, Some use you lot are! [:)]

But yes, this is an area I would see myself naturally fitting in,
assuming you mean working in a packager capacity.

> - selection of packages to be included on the base distribution.

Again, yes, I would see this as an area to have influence in, allied
with decisions on how to package them.  A good example of this (and I
know I've never added this to bugzilla - my bad) is Abiword.

I've been doing packages of Abiword for ages now, effectively the
closest this Abiword has to an official SUSE packager.  I follow the
Abiword team's convention of packaging it like this:

abiword
  -plugins-tools
  -plugins-impexp
  -clipart

Whereas SUSE have retained a monolithic package.  Now, I'm not saying
one way is inherently better than the other way, but it's an example of
a point for discussion.
-- 
James Ogley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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