[Mageia-dev] Teamviewer and X86_64 build . . .

Tue Nov 29 14:44:38 CET 2011

Am 29.11.2011 14:17, schrieb Thomas Backlund:
+> Robert Fox skrev 29.11.2011 13:24:
+>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 12:20 +0100, nicolas vigier wrote:
+>>> You are free to try to help teamviewer fix their package to make it work
+>>> on Mageia, you can already do it now, there's no need to have a voting
+>>> system to consider it.
+>>>
+>>
+>> Sorry Nicolas - I would if I knew how, but unfortunately I am not a
+>> packager nor am I a developer with intimate knowledge of Mageia - I am
+>> simply a power user who enjoys testing the latest (cauldron) and giving
+>> feedback.
+>>
+>
+> Ah... and there it is...
+>
+> This is how most threads like this ends up...
+>
+> Many users seems to forget this is a community driven distribution,
+> so if you want something no-one of the current maintainers care
+> about, you need to do the work, and stop expecting others to do
+> it for you (unless you pay them)...
+
+I don't think that he is "expecting others to do it" for him.
+As Robert Fox said:
+"All I am asking is that Mageia recognise the need for the end
+users to co-exist with their Mac / Winblows counterparts, and that
+certain software is unavoidable.  Any efforts made to help get such
+software to work properly with our distribution would be considered
+positive."
+
+So, if I understood him right, a how-to would be enough for him.
+Three possible solutions came to my mind, to solve this issue:
+1. We write a documentation for, which has to be translated in each 
+language.
+2. We provide a get-teamviewer package (as for skype). I guess there 
+would be a script in it, that does the needed steps? However, a packager 
+would be needed for it, who build and maintain it.
+3. We take care, that the provided Mandriva package on the Teamviewer 
+website works properly in Mageia. Due to my limited knowledge I can't 
+estimate the effort for that possible solution.
+
+Regards,
+Thorsten
+
+