On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns wrote:

On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009 16:34:51 Greg Freemyer wrote:

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I have not yet used contrib: http://en.opensuse.org/Contrib

It seems to be gaining packages. (autossh is one I requested via bugzilla be added to OS 11.2 and it got put in Contrib instead.)

And I've never really understood what Packman is. It obviously holds a lot more than problematic codecs, etc.

Can someone explain how they will work together? This is a difficult Question. A Few of the openSUSE/Novell Team Members are packaging in Packman. But i think so: Contrib as Member of the Build Service is near by OpenSUSE/Novell. OpenSUSE Build Service as whole System is a Community Project, but it is near by Novell/openSUSE than Packman. But Packman has high Quality Packages, as Contrib, too...

Just my 2 cents...

So Team Members that are currently packaging non-license encumbered software for Packman will likely be moving their packages to Contrib over time? Does Packman get packages from non-Team Members somehow? Or does it mean that Packman will slowly shrink in number of packages it contains until all that is left is the License Encumbered packages? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Hi, on 02/17/2009 06:25 PM Greg Freemyer wrote:

So Team Members that are currently packaging non-license encumbered software for Packman will likely be moving their packages to Contrib over time?

No.

Does Packman get packages from non-Team Members somehow?

No.

Or does it mean that Packman will slowly shrink in number of packages it contains until all that is left is the License Encumbered packages?

The Packman's have no plans on merging with Contrib. Mainly because Packman is following a complete different set of rules. For instance you can do version updates of Software in Packman, you cant in Contrib. etc. etc. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE. Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org