On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Here's a freebie: Borrow from Livna's install script. It already has provisions for smart and apt. P.S. I would have submitted the above as an RFE a week ago but the RPM Fusion website layout overwhelmed me. It's too modern, too much low contrast light blue on white, and required a login! Didn't find the create account link until today. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
