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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 17.12.2008 09:09, Kam Leo wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Thorsten Leemhuis
> <fedora at leemhuis.info> 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.
> After I posted my message I rechecked, found the new main web page,
> and the neutered release rpm. Bummer. I'm beginning to think this
> merger is a shotgun wedding.

Then consider to help to make it better to suit your needs.

BTW, quoting
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-December/003042.html

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apt-rpm doesn't work in current Fedora anyways.
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CU
knurd