Hello, On Jul 1 10:06 Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
I remember some years ago kkaempf told the story how he packaged something to build for both Fedora and openSUSE. Fedora accepted the package, openSUSE didnt - because there were some (possibly openSUSE-only) macros that "could have been used".
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-packaging/2017-07/msg00079.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In general it seems to be good when openSUSE RPM spec files are in compliance with a reasonable openSUSE standard. But on the other hand enforcing it could be a hindrance for openSUSE contributors to use ready-made RPM spec files from whatever upstream projects also for openSUSE RPMs with only some minor openSUSE-specific adaptions to get software easily built also for openSUSE. What is more important for openSUSE: Be open for others (and accept diversity) or be uniform (to make maintenance easier)? ----------------------------------------------------------------------
So by striving to have uniform, easy-to-maintain packages we get less packages. And less packagers, too.
In general uniformity does not make life easier for free openSUSE contributors but perhaps uniformity is mainly useful for some special SUSE maintenance people? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX GmbH - HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org