On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:08:06PM +0200, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Although SUSE Linux ships a huge number of packages, there is still a lot of stuff that's not included.
I agree. However in the past if you bought SUSE there was already so much in it that that starting to make your own was not really worth it, Perhaps another reason was that the chance of getting officuially into the SUSE distro wre prestty slim. Also for a lot of people, using the Mandiva or RedHat rpm's (or other RPM's) just worked out of the box. Why would somebody start making an rpm package for each and every distro around. If I made a SUSE rpm, it won't be available for Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, ...
And I really think that the core distro should shrink a little (or at least stop growing) because at some point, quantity would get over quality, and that's definately not what any of us want. It's up to the openSUSE community to grow more packagers.
Stop growing, because people expect SUSE to be humongous. It is as if SUSE as a distro goes to eleven with the number of included packages.
To me, that's the #1 priority for openSUSE (as a community), but I guess everyone sees other #1 priorities ;)) (and that's good, it not only shows there's still work to do to leverage our community (at least in numbers) but also that we actually have ideas on how to do that)
I really, really, really would love to see a lot of maintainers for one huge repo, which everybody (after some quilification) can link they YaST to, to get anything they like. That way it can already be added at instalation. This would mean: 1 link to the instalation data (be it HD, DVD, FTP or whatever) 1 link to /usr/src/packages/RPMS (1) 1 link to the online sources 1 link to the online official release 1 link to the online addidional packags What should be standard o or off is another discusion, first get it implemented. They should also be the same links (yes, multiple) for YOU. (1) This could already be implemented. Need people to explain to run createrepo /usr/src/packages/RPMS and put createrepo on the first 5 CD's houghi -- Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/ Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html