Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

["Robison, Jonathon (M.)" <jrobiso2@xxxxxxxx>]

Excellent idea.  So long as they ARE available to those who need them, this
sounds like a good all-around solution. 


Jonathon M. Robison
ET, ITI
"There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary, and those
who don't"

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@xxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:28 AM
To: opensuse-factory@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary
software in openSUSE


Michael Löffler wrote on opensuse-announce:

> Hi, 
> 
> the survey we did on proprietary software can be found here:
> http://en.opensuse.org/UX#Surveys
> 
> It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used
(e.g. 
> PlanMaker, SEPsesam etc.). Software which is hardly used we don't neet to 
> ship on our media. Therfor my suggestion is to drop some software totally
and 
> offer some software only via ftp. To be discussed on opensuse-project.
> 
> Best 
> Michael 
> 
> PS: The question on TexLive was confusing. TexLive is open source but we 
> wanted to know the use of it as it needs meanwhile so much space. 

So, Michael and myself *propose* the following actions:

* Remove ARCAD completely since it does not work at all on x86-64 (see
  bug #248873)

* Offer software that reached either > 80% on "Never" or less than 15 %
  on "Often" + "Very often" only via *ftp* with 10.3.  The following
  software would be affected:
Planmaker
SEPsesam
TextMaker
TeXlive

Moneyplex falls also under this role, due to its usecase we suggest to
leave it on the media.

What do you think?

Andreas
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