On Tue, 11 May 2010 19:46:51 +0200 Marcel Hilzinger <mhilzinger@linuxnewmedia.de> wrote:
Am Montag, 10. Mai 2010 17:31:27 schrieb Stefan Seyfried:
The last time I had looked at this fine piece of software engineering, I was not willing to have this run as root on my machines. That's also why I did refuse to maintain it for openSUSE and drop it.
Please consider: Dropping usb_modeswitch means: openSUSE has no Support for approx 80 % of all _current_ hardware for UMTS/3G-Connection.
I don't have the hardware anymore and I have not much interest in stuff that I don't personally use. (Well, if it was an interesting problem, it might happen that I'd be interested in it, but maintaining usb_modeswitch is about the most boring stuff one can do. So it's not for me :) For usb_modeswitch, it's not only boring, but looking at the code was really not funny. To say it politely. (maybe that changed since I looked) So it's not something I'd do vouluntarily in my spare time.
It seems a bad idea to me and even worse for openSUSE.
Then go ahead and maintain it. That's a community distribution. Everyone can help. -- Stefan Seyfried "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org