On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:25 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
On 16/11/10 22:06, Heiko Baums wrote:
Otherwise you should write a big note on the homepage and/or the download page that this distro is free but not meant to be used for the public. "Feel free to use it but don't expect anything. This distro is only meant to be used by us developers." Or something like this. Maybe a bit exaggerated.
Slightly exaggerated. But perhaps we do need that to keep people from forming such unfounded ideas about their opinions counting towards anything around here.
Allan
I thought this idea of Heiko's was a great idea, myself. In a fit of inspiration, here's a suggestion. This would be placed after the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph in the 3-paragraph description. "This community involvement allows developers to focus on what's most important to them in the knowledge that the community will provide high quality packages for everything else." Just a draft, doesn't really express everything yet. Should I open a bug-report? And Heiko, I'm not sure why you're making a big fuss over these packages. Its not even much harder to work from the AUR. Comparisons to Gentoo are ridiculous. I've got 75 packages from the AUR currently, and I don't spend hours a day compiling. The longest package to compile is probably samba4 at 20 minutes, followed by the kernel at 10 minutes (optimized), everything else tops out at 1-2 minutes. Go have a cup of coffee, and consider the difference to the hours and hours you'd have spent compiling world on Gentoo.