[X2Go-Dev] X2Go organigram

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Tuesday 2013-03-12 09:56, Oliver Burger wrote:
>2013/3/8 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de>:
>> On Friday 2013-03-08 16:50, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jan Engelhard[t] (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?

Yes, distros exist to do NIH [they will write the spec from scratch again] :)


>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.

This point is valid.


>- 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

For libraries, it is not a problem, because their names are not used
at all, but RPM-ELF dependencies. And the latter are the same across
all RPM-using distros.

About the names of non-library packages: not a problem either,
as we can just make a %if that, then that, %else that, %endif.


>- 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

Can't help those souls. Sourceforge staff also gets useless requests
about projects they are in no way involved in.