On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 20:58, Lamar Owen wrote:
We publish all code and scripts we use for such stuff - and if users want to, they have access to this - to use and deploy within the GPL framework. What we do expect is that users who make this effort contribute back to the community rather than just sponging ( is there such a word ? ) off it.
Karanbir, the word is 'freeloading.'
But you have to admit that there would be something amusingly ironic about the Centos project opposing distribution rebuilds...
I have no problem with rebuilds if they are open source and they don't claim to be CentOS.
You surely don't see PNAELV telling us how to create a distro ... or the people at debian helping the ubuntu guys ... or gentoo guys helping VLOS.
Not offering to help is understandable though.
That is the point ... why would we help create a competing distro?
Still, I think there is a place for things like the k12ltsp rebuild that adds things in a way that they come up working after an install without breaking any of the base system. Such efforts should either be encouraged or made unnecessary by hosting yum-installable package groups in the centos-extra repository for add on features like this.
Doing addon repos or other rebuilds are absolutely fine if they community projects. CentOS-Extra is fairly large already, though we would be glad to add trusted developers who have projects already ongoing.