On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 00:20 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > > Rather than focus purely on packaging standards, I think it'd be better > for such a group to eliminate pointless differences between distributions > by producing a series of informal RFC type documents. I am meaning > differences like some distros supporting /etc/profile.d and others not, or > using different locations for LinuxThreads, or different ways of parallel > installing libpng. > Well, I did spend a lot of sweat trying to just get the libpng maintainers to eliminate that particular problem back when the problem appeared ;-) which would have been easier! > If there is genuine interest in this, I'll bump it much nearer the top of > my priority list. I don't mind trying to kick start such a forum, though > I'd appreciate the thoughts of Havoc Pennington on this though. I think > freedesktop.org just kind of grew out of the EWMH effort, but I wasn't > around at that time. What do you want my thinking on? freedesktop.org was not really based on EWMH, that I can remember. I started it by writing the mission statement: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/MissionStatement well, maybe it's been edited a bit over the years, I don't know. But it was roughly like that always. Havoc -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
