--- Martin Schlander
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 14:44, frank nelson wrote:
and everything has always been in one place, as it should be.
Well, a combination of wanting to show off our openess
Sounds more like the truth, about a misguided ego-trip, and more believable than blaming the mirror maintainers.
and the mirrormaintainers not wanting to mirror the same quite large repo twice (i.e. having inst- source on both ftp.suse.com and opensuse.
Not needed if handled properly. On the openSUSE mirrors there is a directory called factory, and it's called that for a reason. That is the very essence of what openSUSE is. It is the community part of the factory that produces SUSE Linux, and as such, like all factories, when the product is finished, it should be moved to the showroom, both to make room for building the next product in the factory, and to show-off the shiny new product in the showroom. It announces, and confirms that it is in fact finished, and ready for use. The showroom, should be, and always, prior to 10.0, was www.suse.com, and it's mirrors. The openSUSE mirrors should reflect the fact that they are the factory, and contain only works in progress. On Usenet we keep getting questions from people who went searching for SUSE 10.0, saw 10.1 and jumped right into the latest and greatest, not understanding the concept of beta software, and later, complaining when it doesn't work as expected. The finished and unfinished state of the product, SUSE Linux, needs to be the deciding factor as to where it resides, not the openness. By it's very nature all of SUSE Linux is OSS, except for the few things in the *extra directory, or at least that should be the dividing line. Anyone wanting pure OSS should be able to install all of SUSE, except the contents of the *extra directory, and know they have only OSS. All proprietary non-OSS things offered by SUSE Linux should properly be found in *extra only. This is a far more logical separation scheme than has existed with SUSE 10.0, and much easier for a SUSE newbie to grasp. -- imotgm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com