[Mageia-dev] unity on mageia

Thu Sep 13 22:50:36 CEST 2012

13.09.2012 23:37, Damian Ivanov skrev:
+> There are lots of good reasons to switch to OBS
+>     - OBS has a web interface ( lots of ppl including me do lot of
+> the spec file editing, patching etc. using the web interface from
+> windows e.g from work PC / mobile platforms)
+
+I'd rather have developers that actually use the distro they build for 
+and test the fixes themselves too.
+
+>     - In OBS it's very easy to fix a package for everyone, if you have
+> an account at the OBS server, just branch it, fix it, submit it (and
+> wait for approval)
+
+
+And if you have a mga packager account you can do the same on our 
+system, if not you can file a bug or send/suggest patches too...
+
+
+>     - Package that are on build.opensuse.org can be linked to, inter
+> instance linking, copying, aggregating (with enough user permission)
+> is no problem
+
+-ENOTCOMPUTE
+
+> - OBS is already used by more than 33,327 confirmed developers.
+> - Mandriva is also considering it.
+> - You would do something for inter-distro collaboration (and well we
+> can discuss this, OBS is the most advanced build system)
+>
+
+Well, inter-distro collaboration happends without OBS too...
+
+>> Well, I dont see stuff doing hacks like "Obsoletes/Provides gtk3" to
+>> replace the real upstream packages ever being allowed in official repos.
+> We can remove the obsoletes, it would be just the gtk3 fork of ubuntu
+> in the repo alternatively installable.
+>
+
+--
+Thomas
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