[linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

[Austin Acton]

On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 17:39, Mark Knecht wrote:
> This is the part of your statement I don't understand. How is this any
> different from the countless hours Fernando spends making RPMs for our exact
> Redhat distributions?

It's exactly the same.  Fernando's RPMs are engineered for a specific
RedHat version, and built on that version.  Our RPMs are engineered for
a specific Mandrake version.  That's the way it should be in fact.

> It seems identically parallel to my mind...unless it's the extra goodies
> part. I haven't heard of anyone on the Planet who got an PRM and it dodn't
> work for him. Might be some, but I cannot remember one.

Now I don't understand what you're saying.
If you are saying that the rpms are universal, that's not the case.  If
they were, you wouldn't need to post three versions of each.
If you are saying that Fernando's RPMs are useful and easy to install, I
completely agree with you.  I don't think I ever implied otherwise.  The
only reason you need the Plant is that not every distribution provides
these apps as RPMs.  One would expect at least RedHat to work as hard as
we do (both Mandrake volunteers and Fernando) to make audio apps
available to inexperienced users as easy-to-install packages.

Austin

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                        Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.
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