On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Rob Lanphier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Lane, Ryan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think we should be doing education, but not for the package maintainers. >> We should try harder to inform our users that they shouldn't used distro >> maintained packages, and we should explain why. > > I'm not sure I buy this. Why is MediaWiki so special that it can't > exist inside of a package? Is MediaWiki such a special piece of > software that it's impossible to build a good package? It Can, we just want a working package, And until the providers provide this, there will be recommendations against using the packages. Someone, That for example, installs a package that has broken skins right from the get go are going to have bad impressions on MediaWiki, it won't be until they go digging to find out that they need to manually set a alias for their webserver to find it, And it won't be until someone mentions otherwise that its actually the packages fault its broken.
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