Packaging Survey - May 2009

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, José Matos wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 May 2009 12:31:56 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I did a quick survey from Fedora on what software Fedora users are using
>> that is not available in the repo. Here are the results. If you find
>> anything interesting, feel free to pick it up.
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging_Survey_May_2009
>
> root is being reviewed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744)

I have no problem with root being packaged, it used to be no small task to 
package root so if it is on its way I think that's great.

  I just want to relate my first exposure to 'root'. I was a sysadmin in the
physics dept at duke university. I was told one of the workstations in the
High Energy Physics dept was running slowly and asked if I could
check it out.

I login and discover a process running named 'rootd'. I suspend my desire 
to freak out a bit and eventually trace it back to a user's homedir where 
they've unzipped and built a local copy of cern's root. At this point I 
vow a silent oath to get even with whomever named the software 'root' and 
go about my day.

That's my story. 
:)

-sv