12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
8:56 a.m.
2013/3/8 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>:
On Friday 2013-03-08 16:50, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Jan Engelhard (X2Go for RPM-based distros)
Wouldn't it be better to let the distros provide their packages? After all that's what distros are there for, aren't they? Of course it's nice for an end user, when his distro does not provide a package and the upstream project provides it, but from a distro packager perspective, it's bad, since
- you will necver know about conflicts between third party packages and those provided by the distro itself.
- it's kind of hard to provide universal rpm packages, as the naming shema of libraries and other needed packages does vary quite a lot
- people will always complain to the distro's bug tracker and triaging teams have much fun explaining to those, that it's not the distro's fault as the packages in use are not provided by the distro
Cheers,
Oliver