-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Vincent Danen wrote: > On Wed Oct 01, 2003 at 12:08:46PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > >>I know all of this, just because i've been there for 4 years now. My point is >>that i'm fed up with oral tradition. No one knows about contribs outside >>cooker communauty. Among the few newbies that know about urpmi, they always >>use urpmi.update whereas none of their sources ever change. Etc... >> >>What we lack here is a clear explanation of mdk functionning targeted at >>outside world. > > Your problem then is not the lack of a policy defining support (or lack > thereof) for contribs then. Your problem is the lack of awareness of > contribs.
Actually, it's not our problem. It's Mandrakesoft's problem. People think: - -Redhat is better on a server - -Debian has so many more useful packages than other distros When in fact Mandrake is as good (or better IMHO) than Redhat on a server, and Mandrake has more up-to-date versions of most of the packages Debian has. Mandrakesoft is the one trying to sell Mandrake, not us. > I can't help you on the last one. We can't help you (Mandrakesoft) improve the image of the distro if you're not going to make those improvements (such as the inclusion of up-to-date grass packages including all features and all dependencies, samba3 which I am sure Redhat will be touting for their next release etc) visible. And we can't do anything more about it ... It seems as if Mandrakesoft management is embarassed to have upstanding community members maintain packages which they advertise, whereas Redhat suddenly seems not to be. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/ewfKrJK6UGDSBKcRAgFeAJ9BCDe7JTFSdrzG2zny7gVHD6vfngCgxY/6 DhWYHm1CTeTLfIOfOsCGN0o= =sOgP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
