fedora only for US users ?

[Pekka Savola]

I don't think it's constructive to continue this thread, but I'll just 
point out something here..

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Pekka Savola wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, David Necas (Yeti) wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:23:13PM +0100, Julien Olivier wrote:
> >>
> >>>You're right ! But those problems are _nothing_ compared to the problems
> >>>you face when you don't speak a single word of English and yet have to
> >>>use English-only apps.
> >>
> >>But then we are no longer talkig about developers and early
> >>adopters.  When one can't read README's in tarballs, one can
> >>hardly fall into these categories.
> > 
> > 
> > _Exactly_ my point, thanks.  I realize that for some user communities,
> > translations (even shoddy ones) are very important.. but strictly
> > speaking, for Fedora Core they probably aren't.  
> 
> Someone that can read README's in tarballs is not going to wait for the 
> latest and greatest to be packaged in a Fedora rpm.

Wrong.  Many (almost all I know) people which use a RPM-centric
distribution actually prefer to get their packages in RPM format.  
They're certainly *not* going to install the stuff from a tarball.

Whether they wait for Fedora, or just re-package the RPM with newest stuff 
themselves, is a different question.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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