Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>>> I'm not demanding anything, I am just presenting a user's 
>>>> perspective and from here it looks like you are currently doing 
>>>> extra work to make things different and incompatible. 
>>>
>>> It doesn't look anything like that if you are paying any attention at 
>>> all. Again, cut the drama. Constantly throwing insults at a project 
>>> just because you have different opinions on how it should be done 
>>> isn't the way to present anything much less act as a user 
>>> representative.
>>
>> I'm trying to be realistic, not insulting.  I just think that needing 
>> to use 3rd party apps is common and thus representative for users.  
>> How else is there to present that other than to bring up difficulties?
> 
> The difficulties are understood and the tools are there. If you want to 
> learn about them, ask in a users list.

The users list might tell me how someone else managed to work around 
certain difficulties but no one there would be able to help eliminate 
them or know whether that work-around is expected to be reliable through 
updates or just happened to work for the person who tried it.  And 
particularly in the case of jpackage I don't see the point.  Is it 
impossible to make the parts you have in common identical or change the 
names so you have nothing in common?

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   Les Mikesell
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