On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Lane, Ryan
<Ryan.Lane(a)ocean.navo.navy.mil> wrote:
I think we should be doing education, but not for the
package maintainers.
We should try harder to inform our users that they shouldn't used distro
maintained packages, and we should explain why.
I'm not sure I buy this. Why is MediaWiki so special that it can't
exist inside of a package? Is MediaWiki such a special piece of
software that it's impossible to build a good package?
I think user education is going to be even more futile than package
maintainer education. The allure of running a system like Debian or
Fedora is the ability to have pre-vetted software running in a
configuration designed to work as part of a system. I'm not here to
start a debate about whether they are successful in achieving that,
but it's clearly a popular enough notion that an education effort to
counter that probably won't have much of an impact with anyone beyond
the Slackware community.
+1 for package maintainer education (as frustrating and unproductive
as it might be thusfar)
Rob