On Tuesday 29 July 2008 17:32:56 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
In short it needs: * Source needs to be trusted (when is this the case ?) * To be packaged by a trusted packager (when is a packager trusted enough for the distro ?) * A significant interest by the users (How to messure this ? 2 loud people vs. 1000 quite people ?) * Who is able and willing to deliver maintenance updates ? (Who qualifies to deliver updates for two years ? Who can be the fallback ?)
Actaually Ubutnu has achieved them all. It has both 1 small core system, which is fully maintainable, one large repository (universe), and one large repository of problematic software (multiverse).
You can not compare this, because these are seperations due to legal issues of the software, but has nothing to do with trustworthy of the content. You can of course use the rules of Ubuntu (or Fedora or ..) as a base to define requirements for the questions above. But please keep in mind that we do not want to have an openssl package like Ubuntu had ;) -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org