Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (286 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 2010-08-31 11:15, C wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

...

> As it is, the majority of openSUSE users are stuck if they want to use
> Google Talk.  They cannot install the DEB file.. alien fails to build
> an installable RPM, and we can't (for reasons stated) provide a build
> in non-free.  So.. what do we do?  Say suck it up and use something
> else?  Say too bad, go use Ubuntu?  Say, RTFM and point them at the
> RPM man page?  (Serious questions by the way... more and more I'm
> seeing 3rd parties who _used_ to build openSUSE RPMs aren't bothering
> anymore... they just make the Ubuntu DEBs.)

And some provide an rpm built by alien from a deb, and don't even test to see 
if it works - and doesn't.

> Maybe Google will provide an RPM at some point...who knows...

I'm hoping for it. But they are taking their time :-(

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Cheers / Saludos,

                Carlos E. R.
                (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))
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