Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Felix Möller <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> > I didn't say it would be *easy* or *fast* but I think it should be an
> > objective -- at least an objective to work towards having more
> > packages in our repositories.
>
> I am sorry, but I really think the quality of the existing packages
> should be improved.
>
> eclipse for example is pretty popular but still seems unmaintained
> although it is in the distribution. The problems are fixed upstream
> and there are bugreports about them. And I have been complaining
> here. :-(

You're invited to build in the openSUSE Build Service your own eclipse
package with those fixes in it and then submit your package to factory.

> So maybe it is not just the quantity but the quality which should be high.

Which one do you prefer?  I prefer quality with a "reasonable" quantity,

Andreas
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