> 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's "special". It isn't necessarily the fault of the distro or the package maintainer for the quality of the packages. It is our fault. Upgrading is unreliable for a number of reasons. It is definitely unreliable enough that I wouldn't trust a package to do it for me, and I can't reasonably recommend it for anyone else either. > I think user education is going to be even more futile than package > maintainer education. The allure of running a system like Debian or > Fedora is the ability to have pre-vetted software running in a > configuration designed to work as part of a system. I'm not here to > start a debate about whether they are successful in achieving that, > but it's clearly a popular enough notion that an education effort to > counter that probably won't have much of an impact with anyone beyond > the Slackware community. > > +1 for package maintainer education (as frustrating and unproductive > as it might be thusfar) > I think it would be better if we provided the packages. If we fix our upgrade issues, I'll be more than happy to write rpms and debs. Respectfully, Ryan Lane
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