On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
On Monday 2009 January 12 15:26:07 Josef Wolf wrote:
When we totally rely on the build service, we might reach a point that we can not build without this service anymore, no matter whether we have the sources or not. So there's the risk that we would not be able to build anymore, should this service become unavailable at some time in the future.
But it seems like I am the only one with such (paranoid?) thinking, so I am probably totally wrong.
No, I believe there is value in your thinking. I want to be able to build packages from source without access to the OBS, even if I can't think of a good reason I'd need to right now.
In theory you can get the OBS source and setup your own OBS at your company. Or Redhat could, or OSDL could, etc. So for the major players it is not a big concern I don't think. And for the end-users who just need to compile something and get on with their life, the OBS is also a good idea. For the actual developers, they will always want their own toolchain to test/develop with. But once they are ready to start rolling packages for multiple distros, the OBS makes since for them too. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org