On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:11, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 6/7/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 09:33 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > But doesn't that near eleiminate the easy possibility of offline > > > installation? I know no one who uses Fedora + Gnome. And when ever I > > > install Linux for a new person, I install Fedora + KDE, or give them > > > instructions to install it them selves. > > > > Thats why another blocker is being able to spin custom CDs out of Core > > +Extras packages for installation. Being able to spin a specific > > Fedora-KDE CD. Please do check the wiki page. > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnleashKDE > > My apologies to all for not reading the wiki page pre-posting. Please > ignore the majority of my rant. > > What would be the possiblity, of getting the kde-redhat guys to be a > full part of this project? No offense to those involved, but I have > found their "spin" of KDE to be of better quality, so getting some of > those maintainers onboard would be nice. > > But please take some caution with all of this. The Fedora Project > already has a lot of negaitve , all be it misinformed, bad press > surrounding it. Just head over /. and see for yourself when ever a > Fedora story comes up. Going around with titles such as "Unleash KDE" > and "Kde into Extras" seem a bit ill advised. > > Slightly off-topic, but some technical educating in contributing to > Extras would be nice, of if such documentation existing, making it > more available. I have tried rolling an RPM, out of curiousity, and I > must say it isn't exactly a rewarding experience. Flattening out the > learning curve to contributing in terms of packaging _may_ be > beneficial. For example, if it was easy enough to KDE themes and > styles, I might have contributed some to Extras by now. But I may just > not have put enough effort into my attempt as it was not esseential at > the time. I'm not sure if what you're asking for is a tutorial about how to build RPMs or on how to build RPMs for Core & Extras. If you want to learn (even from scratch) how to build RPMs, check out [ http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF ]. -- Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Senior Instructor Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ] GPG Key fingerprint: F98C E31A 5C4C 834A BCAB 8CB3 F980 6C97 DC0D D409
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