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

Tue Nov 29 14:51:42 CET 2011

On 29 November 2011 13:44, Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de> wrote:
+> 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)...
+>
+
+This is a very good point, however, i feel that it should be said,
+that while we, as in Mageia are very welcome to new packagers and make
+the process as easy as possible, there still seems to be a large
+number of posts asking about how to become one, rather than, "i want
+to become one, can I have a mentor please"
+>
+> 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
+>
+
+I would say that number 1 here makes the most sense, provided that
+there aren't changes every 3 months in the teamviewer dependencies,
+which seems unlikely.
+
+For number 3, I would say using the Fedora rpm would be better
+practice, as more software like Teamviewer will have rpms for Fedora
+than Mandriva.
+