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). -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org