On 11/9/06, VMiklos <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
krix just told me that you have problems with our patch queue. may i ask you to:
1) discuss such problems here, not in private mails or on irc
The problem was brought up in private because I noticed it _as I was writing an email to him_.
2) mention what is the problem with our patch queue
I'm not sure what you mean by "patch queue". My issue is this from darcs.frugalware.org: "pacman Frugalware's .tar.bz2 based package manager with depende ..." Really... I mean, looking around it just appears that you guys are running a fork, and not "pacman". As a corollary, let's look at IceWeasel - it has the Firefox code, plus a few additional patches, they regularly sync with upstream, etc etc. It sounds alot like what you guys do with "Frugalware's package manager". I'm not trying to say anything bad by it. It's just customary to make a name change when running a fork (I even think the GPL requires it, but I may be mistaken). I mean, lets look at it from a user's point of view: "Oh hey, pacman, I used that on Arch! Wait... why doesn't that option work? What's going on? Where's the PKGBUILD for that? FrugalBuild, huh? foo-1.0-1-i686.fpm, what?". When a new name comes along, the user knows they're getting something different.