[packman] support

"Andrés G. Aragoneses" knocte at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 17:04:19 CEST 2008


Kevin Cordia Jr wrote:
> It seems as though your repository is without question the best available
> with the most software packages of all. Mandriva linux is really one of the
> most user friendly versions of linux available IMO more so than Suse. I use
> suse 11.0 and Mandriva 2008.1 and I would reccomend that new users use
> Mandriva because it is easy. The drawback however is that Mandriva uses PLF
> repositories and they do not have the software many people desire. I do not
> have much knowledge about what it takes to create or maintain such a repo as
> yours but I was wondering why you do not support mandriva and if maybe some
> day you might? thank you for your time.

IMO special efforts like Packman and PLF should join efforts and use a 
cross-distro package management software (like OBS). However, it's not 
my decision so I can only suggest the merge (as in when Compiz and Beryl 
merged).

	Andrés

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