Re: Need advice pertaining to GSoC proposal

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 03:28 +0530, Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> 2009/4/4 James Antill <james fedoraproject org>:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 17:17 +0530, Debayan Banerjee wrote:
> >> Let ISVs, 3rd party developers package stuff and host their own
> >> repositories.
> >
> >  IMNSHO this isn't viable, which might be central to why you don't
> > understand what you want to do isn't such a good idea.
> >  I've tried to write up an overview of the problem, why it can't work,
> > and a possible solution for the 3rd parties:
> >
> > http://illiterat.livejournal.com/6716.html
> 
> Thank you very much for your effort. I learnt a lot.

FWIW I wrote something similar, but much more wordy and blathery, in the
context of Ubuntu's PPAs, back when I was at MDV:

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