M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
2. I think we need to package the major "big data" infrastructure tools. Hadoop for sure, but probably damn near everything the Apache Foundation maintains - Mahout, Cassandra, the UIMA natural language processing infrastructure, etc.
For what? -- Ed, is that your line of work, and do you think it's important because you know it? -- How large do you think the "market" is for that kind of distribution? -- You recognize that openSUSE is not a distribution that caters for that market now, do you? So you argue for a change of audience? Do you want to see your wishes fulfilled, for a "perfect" openSUSE distro for you -- or do you really argue for change that will be good for the rest of the user community, too? It's my line of work, FTR. None of my customers, which happen to be big German banks and Telcos, would ever dream to run this on openSUSE, hell would freeze over before that happens. (And all of "big data" infrastructure is enterprise systems, I hope we agree to that.) And -- all those Apache stuff is not well packagable anyhow, since data center environments have so many different demands that openSUSE won't fulfill them properly (audit-related) anyhow. Maven 3 goes to a model where every dependency is explicitly versioned for a reason, not for joke. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org