On Fri, Nov 20, Martin Wilck wrote:
Sure thing. Some people say that rpm itself is obsolete 20th-century technology. We've had this discussion many times - outside the narrow world of rpm-based distros, hardly anyone cares about this stuff.
Hey, even Microsoft did choose RPM for their Linux Distribution ;) So RPM cannot be that obsolete :)
I see this as voting-by-feet, at least in part. By changing the rules every other year, we make it harder than needs to be, and less likely that people will enjoy contributing to our project.
That's the old problem: keep everything static, so that people don't need to learn something new? This would mean maintaining openSUSE to dead that nobody is interested in it anymore at some point in time. Or become innovative, solve problems, introduce new technology? This means we have to continously learn something new and adjust our policies. I prefer the second one. Else the human race would still live in caves. And learning new stuff and technology is at least for me much more fun than doing always the same. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany Managing Director: Felix Imendoerffer (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg)