On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Lane, Ryan Ryan.Lane@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