On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:05:02 -0600, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > (unless *only* patches from the > base rpm are ever released, which, IMO, would be bad in other ways). That's not even concievable with Fedora Extras. Fedora Extras from all discussion I've seen is to be primarily a rolling release model, it would be difficult to define a 'base' rpm for Extras Packages. > This has been discussed ad-nauseum on this list before. In short, it's > a *lot* of work, for *little* relative gain (at best). It's not worth it. While I don't think i would actively encourage people to work on this.. from a manhour priority perspective... if interested parties are intent on spending their personal time on this.. I would say there is only one way forward..and that is incrementally. Instead of fighting to convince developers for existing projects to include new functionality they have reserverations about... build a stand-alone tool set that can be used to generate the deltas and then re-generate the rpms on the clientside for the distro package management tools to use. Find a subset of mirrors to offer that service and get people to test it. First get a stand-alone implementation tha can be used to layer the experimental functionality over existing tools... before worrying about integrating that functionality into existing tools. -jef"at the very least.. it will be a learning experience for those invovled.. like all good failing efforts are"spaleta
