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Re: [opensuse-factory] if the community contributed?
  • From: Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:17:20 -0400
  • Message-id: <20080809201719.GT8560@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Alexey Eremenko <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> [08-09-08 16:10]:
That's the problem - they are available, but not in 1 central repository.

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On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
<crrodriguez@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Alexey Eremenko escribió:

openSUSE lacks in the packages arena -

lacks In WHAT ? specifically ?

Do you want me to get started on that ? Very long-list - 12000
packages that Debian has :)

ohh joy, 18000 buggy packages

instead of a selected few thousands working.

If we apply some quality control, we will only introduce the working
packages :) And I can do the QA. So we have a volunteer :)


Future packages:
(utilities)
-banner


</quote>


Ah, so "openSUSE lacks in the packages arena - " means that they are
not all in the same place, not that they are not available as
inferred. You just "don't want to look" for them, even though the
search facilities make them available.

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