"DaB." <w...@daniel.baur4.info> wrote: > [...] >> I believe we had >> several issues already in the past when the installed soft- >> ware differed between the Solaris servers. Which brings me >> to: Does anyone know an established format a) in which pro- >> jects could write down their requirements and b) that covers >> both Debian and Solaris? So when admins need to (re-)in- >> stall a server, they wouldn't have to guess which packages >> are (still) required, but could just collect all >> $HOME/.requirements for active accounts and when one of >> these could not be satisfied, there would also be a person >> to contact before tools get broken.
> That is a nice plan, but it would not work, because most users are not capable > to tell what liberies they need. And it is BTW not a problem to have a libery > installed that is not used (because we have enough free space for that). > [...] It's not only a question of space, but also of availability. I don't know about Debian or Solaris, but on Fedora some packages are sent to a farm up north when they don't compile in the current release and noone volunteers to fix it. I wouldn't want the admins in this case to work on such prob- lems if there is no existing demand. I'm more optimistic regarding the abilities of the tool- server users - if someone can write "import x" or "use y;" they should be able to copy and paste that to another file. And if they don't, that'd be a nice opportunity to ask for and share some knowledge. Tim _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
