RPM Fusion needs help/RPM Fusion only is as good as its contributors make it

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 17.12.2008 08:21, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 17.12.2008 07:53, Kam Leo wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis
>> <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a freebie: Borrow from Livna's install script. It already has
>> provisions for smart and apt.
> 
> Guess what: it's not free -- packaging it/adding it to the existing 
> packages can easily sum up to and hour or two of work (sometimes even 
> more if you want to do them properly; see 
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13 for example). Which 
> brings me to the point I outlined earlier: "nearly nobody wants to do 
> the boring things or things that are only useful for other people"
> 
> Even worse: Seems the latest livna-release you get from 
> http://rpm.livna.org/ these days also dropped support for smart and apt; 
> I guess the livna people will readd it if somebody sends tested patches.

One more detail: The old Livna package iirc has a bug: It leaves unowned 
directories behind on uninstall or owns a directory that is owned by a 
different package. That is something a lot of developers dislike (not 
only because it might leave directories behind after uninstall; it also 
can lead to problems if the permissions of that directory conflic). That 
are more reasons why

  * it not a freebie / it's not that easy to grab the bits from the 
livna package

  * https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13 takes so long

IOW: Not everything is as easy as it might look like.

CU
knurd