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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060611/457432d4/attachment-0004.sig>