[Mageia-discuss] Attention, please

Wed Feb 23 20:28:45 CET 2011

Well, more precisely, what do you have in mind ?
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+Currently, I'm thinking in two main goals:
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+I. Create a website where:
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+    a. we can promote RPM-based distros usage to general public;
+
+    b. users of these distros can give and receive free communitary
+       support from other users (like a social network);
+
+    c. developers can share your knowledge and resources. This can be
+       done with creation of a knowledge base and git-like repository;
+
+    d. users can make donations to your preferred distros and projects;
+
+    e. we can help independent developers to packing your applications.
+
+But, before this is done, it's necessary that we achieve another goal:
+
+II. Make agreement with main RPM distros to standardization:
+
+    a. Standardize naming and versioning of packages
+          Nowadays, it's common that, in one distro, a package be called
+          'samba' and, in another, 'smb'. Thus, if we try install a
+          package made for the first one in the second, we can break
+          dependence tree. Standardizing the naming and the versioning
+          would solve this issue. Comnpatibility with current distro
+          versions could be achieved by dummy packages.
+
+    b. Standardize file locations
+          Even if you can install a package made for a distro to another
+          without breaking the dependency tree, can occur in the
+          application does not find the libraries or configuration files
+          that need, being necessary to create symbolic links to them.
+          Standardize the location of these files would solve the problem.
+          Comnpatibility with current and old distro versions could be
+          achieved by symlinks created automatically during install.
+
+    c. Standardize init scripts
+          By similar reasons.
+
+Of course, this won't be easy, but let's intone this slogan: "Pack once, install
+everywhere".
+
+