On 17.12.2008 00:55, Kam Leo wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (Note: My only complaint
regarding RPMFusion is that the developers have yum blnders on when
they created their install rpm. They negilected to provide for smart
and apt.)
RPM Fusion is a community project open to everyone. Hence if you want
that project to do something you can either
(1) complain and hope that the right people hear it and do something do
fix it (which often, but not always works and sometimes takes a long
time until you get the outcome)
(2) do it yourself/help other with it
For smart complaining and waiting might be enough, because people work
on is; but if you help it might get realized faster:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13
Regarding apt: I guess none of the current RPM Fusion contributers use
it, hence nobody worked on that. Are you interested? Then tell us what
we need to do (or even better: provide patches) and help testing the
outcome.
Yes, I'm well aware that this mail sounds like "help or shut up" -- but
it's really not meant like one. You are free to complain as much as you
want and criticism is good (¹). Hence I don't want to stop or discourage
you with this mail. I just want people to understand how things work --
e.g. it's basically "Only things that somebody is interested in get
realized in community project; nearly nobody wants to do the boring
things or things that are only useful for other people". This for apt
afaics is the case: None of the RPM Fusion developers use it afaics,
otherwise one would likely have worked on it. It's similar in many other
areas of the project. There is a lot of room to improve the graphics
drivers for example. And there are many "autoconfigure my Fedora for RPM
Fusion, Livna, Flash, ..." apps out there -- it would be of benefit for
everyone if one of the good ones gets into RPM Fusion as is used there
by default.
CU
knurd
(¹) there are a lot of things that could be better; but current RPM
Fusion developers invest quite a lot of hours of work already and try
their best; improving it requires more or more active people afaics,
which are not easy to find
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