On 2013-03-12 12:43, Oliver Burger wrote:
Well, of course anyone may package any software for any OS as long as the license allows to do so.
Perhaps my point didn't come across. My point is, I'm just not a fan of third party packages. I've seen to much bad ones as I went along and I've seen too much Windows style "let's download software from some site in the web and try to install it somehow", that is just not the way it works using GNU/Linux. Of course it is nice, when upstream projects do package their stuff and I'm always basing my distro packages on the upstream srpms, if they are available and if they are not crap (which I've seen as well over the years). My problem is the "rpm-based distros" part. As I see it, packaging for any and all rpm based distros at the same time is just not possible. Of course you can package for some of them at the same time using OBS, but then you will just have some rpm packages and you should note that somewhere. The way user's minds work is "There is a rpm package, I can't install it on my distro, so that distro must have some serious problems", even if the problem is just the package was not built for that distro...
Ok, so what is your suggestion? Do not provide no packages at all. Add a big red warning? Try to find packagers for those (are you volunteering?).
I personally prefer the latter two. ;)
Morty
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