Re: Yet another newbie

[bob kehs ksd org]

I understand that the developers dont have time for this. The thing I am
talking about is that the specs, for the most part are already there. Who
ever builds the tarballs just needs to check on them.

It only takes a second to fix up the specs. Once the rpms are made, there
will be a far greater number of users using/testing gnome. More users
meen more bug reports. More bug reports meens a better gnome 1.0

As for the developers, Good job. I thank you for all your hard work. Even
now, it is really something to see. Of all the people I have shown, they
all are blown away...

On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dave Reed wrote:

> > From: bob@kehs.ksd.org
> > 
> > my $.02
> > i dont care so much that gnome team dosn't produce RPMS. my largest amount
> > of time wasted is dealing with the tar.gz's that have bad specs or no
> > specs. It is a simple matter do make rpms with correct specs. Who ever
> > produces the tars needs to check that they have good specs. I would be
> > happy to donate my free cpu time building rpms for every one. I just dont
> > have time to build specs for everything.
> > 
> > As to rpms, GNOME is on this planet to make X more useable. RPMS do the
> > same. Therefore, RPMS, or the ability to make rpms from tarballs, should
> > be available. If gnome is to be widely used it needs to be easy to
> > install.
> 
> 
> Geez, give the developers a break - it's still in beta.  I'm certain
> once 1.0 comes out someone will spend the time to put together RPMS
> that work, but with new releases coming out weekly, other things are
> more important - like fixing bugs!
> 
> Dave
>