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Any efforts made to help get such +</I>><i> software to work properly with our distribution would be considered +</I>><i> positive." +</I>><i> +</I> +We already do, as pointed out by Romain earlier in this thread. +But it does not mean we have to bend over backvards to do it since +we are first and foremost promoting open source. + +><i> So, if I understood him right, a how-to would be enough for him. +</I>><i> Three possible solutions came to my mind, to solve this issue: +</I>><i> 1. We write a documentation for, which has to be translated in each +</I>><i> language. +</I>><i> 2. We provide a get-teamviewer package (as for skype). I guess there +</I>><i> would be a script in it, that does the needed steps? However, a packager +</I>><i> would be needed for it, who build and maintain it. +</I>><i> 3. We take care, that the provided Mandriva package on the Teamviewer +</I>><i> website works properly in Mageia. Due to my limited knowledge I can't +</I>><i> estimate the effort for that possible solution. +</I>><i> +</I> +Well... "We" is still the above mentioned community, so someone still +has to do the work... + +And in Roberts case he also stated he knows how to look things up on the +net and figure things out.. so the next logical step then would +be to document the findings, stick it on wiki, and voila... + +a member of the community ("We") did the work, and the whole community +can benefit from it. and "We" didn't even need to be a packager. + +and maintaining pages on the wiki is also valuable work for the +community. so... many ways to help... + +-- +Thomas +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="009952.html">[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . . +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="009989.html">[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . . +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#9958">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#9958">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#9958">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#9958">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |