On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Robert Schiele wrote:
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 12:14:15PM +0200, Henning Hucke wrote:
Nice. Really! But how does it work and how would I be able to build such a thing without the need to use this "deltarpm" package?
Huh? This is like asking: How would I be able to compile such a C program without the need to use this "gcc" package.
This is like asking "What's the difference between a 'normal' RPM package and a patch RPM package?" so that I can build such a thing even without specialised black boxes!
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Good. But exactly this documents that Novell/SuSE didn't yet reflect enough about the fact that they *need* contributors for the opensuse project and how to ease the work for them.
Sure this was one of the problems SUSE had in former times and still has but actually the situation improved in recent years thus it is not fair to say that things get closed up more and more. The fact that it takes a very long time to improve is not a perfect situation but most of us know how much work it is to change the way a company works --- and the bigger the company is the harder it gets.
Like it happens to me since years now somebody describes what the situation is and why it is like it is. But I also have eyes with which I can see what you see. Nonetheless this doesn't really help if the changes take longer than contributors are willing to wait or longer than it takes to loose contributors below a "critical mass". Think about it!
Obviously most people working at a company fear that changing how a company works might destroy the business model of the company and they all lose their job. Because of that it is just fair that people often fear and resist these changes.
No comment. Regards Henning Hucke -- Man who falls in vat of molten optical glass makes spectacle of self.