OK, I'm stumped

Christoph Thiel cthiel at suse.de
Tue Oct 24 00:56:00 PDT 2006


On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Pascal Bleser wrote:

> Mine includes three things the package from the BS does not (on 
> purpose):
> - - a patch to improve Smart's "install" behavior on x86_64
> - - a patch to handle mirror definitions embedded in .channel files
> - - comes preconfigured with most channels you'll need on SUSE
> 
> Basically, our opinions differ on the latter. Christoph (who maintains 
> the package in the BS) thinks it's a bad thing that makes a lot of 
> problems. I think it's a good thing that makes life a lot easier for 
> beginners (and personally I haven't seen many problems with it).

I don't think it's a bad thing per se -- it's just impossible to ship 
those kind of pre-configured smart packages on SUSE for legal constraints.


Best,
Christoph



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