Excellent idea. So long as they ARE available to those who need them, this sounds like a good all-around solution. Jonathon M. Robison ET, ITI "There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who know binary, and those who don't" -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Jaeger [mailto:aj@suse.de] Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2007 10:28 AM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-factory] Re: Results of survey on use of proprietary software in openSUSE Michael Löffler wrote on opensuse-announce:
Hi,
the survey we did on proprietary software can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/UX#Surveys
It shows that we ship on the media some software which is hardly used (e.g. PlanMaker, SEPsesam etc.). Software which is hardly used we don't neet to ship on our media. Therfor my suggestion is to drop some software totally and offer some software only via ftp. To be discussed on opensuse-project.
Best Michael
PS: The question on TexLive was confusing. TexLive is open source but we wanted to know the use of it as it needs meanwhile so much space.
So, Michael and myself *propose* the following actions: * Remove ARCAD completely since it does not work at all on x86-64 (see bug #248873) * Offer software that reached either > 80% on "Never" or less than 15 % on "Often" + "Very often" only via *ftp* with 10.3. The following software would be affected: Planmaker SEPsesam TextMaker TeXlive Moneyplex falls also under this role, due to its usecase we suggest to leave it on the media. What do you think? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126