On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 09:07 -0400, suse@rio.vg wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 20 August 2006 23:20, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
OpenSuSE being open, cant the community stand together and change the package manager to something that works? Or am I misinformed about the open source process?
Well, all distros end up having to make some decisions about what is in and what is out, and having some control of that.
I suspect that in order to get rid of zmd/rug etc and revert to Yast/YOU you would have to fork it and call it HvdW Linux which would be CaPiTaLiZeD just as weirdly as SuSE to the english speakers... ;-)
This actually happened when RedHat split RHEL/Fedora. CentOS was created. Since RHEL is almost entirely GPL, RedHat has to distribute the sources not only to the OS, but also the updates. So CentOS took the source rpms, replaced the logos, and compiled it. In addition, then get the source rpm updates and compile those.
I wonder if the same will happen to SuSE...
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