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List:       plf-discuss
Subject:    [Plf-discuss] PLF on Fedora Core 3 ?
From:       stefan () eijk ! nu (Stefan van der Eijk)
Date:       2006-02-04 22:38:57
Message-ID: 43E52D01.2090409 () eijk ! nu
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Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Two years ago, you wrote in:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-list/2004-March/msg00093.html
>
> " I'm also involved with plf (plf.zarb.org <http://plf.zarb.org>) and 
> the plf would also love to make fedora packages. Issue at the moment 
> is that the lack of standardisation is making this difficult."
>
> I wonder... has there been any progress?
Not much really. It seems to be really difficult to even get consensus 
among contributors (working on similar packages for different 
distributions --> PLF / ATRPMS, etc) to agree on standardizing. As 
distributions evolve and solve their issues in their own ways, these 
"solutions" don't often make it into other distributions. It's really 
sad, because resources are scarce, and at the end of the day a lot of 
people end up doing the same work (to get software packaged for 
different distributions). In that respect a lot is wasted.

> After a LOT of searching, I have setled on Blag Linux 
> (www.blagblagblag.org <http://www.blagblagblag.org>), it's an UK 
> distro, based on Fedora Core 3. And so far, I love it. But they hate 
> proprietary software, so things like Flash and Java (J2SE) are left out.
>
> I'd love having a PLF repository which hosts Fedora Core (FC3 if 
> possible ;-) packages.
I guess the answer from the PLF folks is going to be: a PLF repository 
for FC is possible, but we're not going to build the packages. We'll be 
more than happy to facilitate with proving access to the PLF site, etc 
(infrastructure), but you'll need to build and upload the packages yourself.

I think the same is also being done for the ubuntu PLF repository.

> Any place where I could do a little pushing for this?. 
You could subscribe to the PLF mailinglist 
(http://plf.zarb.org/contact.php) and ask there.

> Any of the PLF guys run Fedora?
I don't know of any of the PLF people running Fedora.

> Best
>
> Fernando Cassia - Writer @ TheInquirer.net (London, UK).
> Reviewer / Opinion columnist - South America correspondent
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
Interesting.

Perhaps you could write an article about the insanity in software 
packaging? Not only with respect to the OpenSource world, but I guess 
the way this is done in the closed-source world is even worse. Every 
major company I've been in touch with basically does their own software 
packaging (or outsources it).

Regards,

Stefan van der Eijk
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