Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (930 mails)

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 2010-06-24 15:47, Stephan Kleine wrote:
> IMHO this is the worst proposal since it sounds like some ThisUbuntu, 
> ThatUbuntu, ThereUbuntu, HereUbuntu, YouProllyGetItByNowUbuntu.

Sounded to me like ThisUbuntu, ThatMEPIS, ThereCrunchbang,
HereDreamlinux, YourSidux :-)

> > 2.) Key ideas:
> >
> > * reduce the number of packages in Factory
> >   - provide smaller, stable, high quality core distro
>
> If you don't have the man power to maintain the current amount of factory 
> packages there is no way around dropping some.

"You" is an overgeneralization here. Quite a bunch of packages exist
in factory whose develproject maintainer is not someone who was,
or is, working with Novell.

> >   - available for more platforms (including ARM, PowerPC, etc.)
>
> ARM builds would be great for coming tablets but it already has been proven 
> that no one (iirc ~ 0.3%) is interested in PowerPC builds so why start wasting 
> resources on it again (also the amount of ppl trying to fix powerpc for 11.3 / 
> factory is pretty small either)?

Hey, if you have something to donate with reasonable build power, why
not. But it's a sad fact that anything but x86 is either slow,
or requires a few extra bucks.
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