On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 21:00:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > We don't have the ressources for the "one linux model" Given that reducing duplication would increase resources, I don't see why not. Look at it like this. Before the freedesktop.org efforts, KDE and GNOME didn't play so well together. There were two choices ahead of the community: 1) Tell users not to use KDE apps in GNOME or GNOME apps in KDE. If stuff breaks, it's their own fault, in other words 2) Standardise Fortunately, the desktop developers did 2 and now users benefit. Even better, the whole community benefits because people aren't pointlessly cloning each others apps anymore (well, not as much). Useful bits of code like the GtkQt theming engine fill in the bits that are easier to code than standardise. Right now for packaging you guys are choosing path (1). But it's worse than with desktops: there it was only really KDE vs GNOME, but here it's Fedora vs Ubuntu vs Gentoo vs Mandrake vs SUSE and so on. So the duplication of effort and cloning of each others work is much worse. In other words, Thomas is right, we need "1 Linux". Not one distro, but one set of standards people can write packages and installers to. thanks -mike -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
