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

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 17.12.2008 12:18, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 08:41 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> BTW - I have been trying to get into the RPMFusion Wiki to help with a
> few things documentation-wise.

Just FYI, Steward (one of the amd and nvidia graphics driver 
maintainers) did some work a few days ago as well; see
http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-December/002934.html
and the links in it for details.

> Unfortunately, I've been on the road
> allocated on my day job at 202% billable,

np;

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