On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:31:20PM +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote:
Am Sonntag 28 Januar 2007 18:12:34 schrieb Fredrik Rinnestam:
Crux is a "hands on" distribution.
If you cant find another mirror for the package in question, you might want to find another distribution with resources to host everything themselves.
Hands on refers to fixing problems YOURSELF, not relying on others in this context. If you think otherwise, then CRUX is very likely not the right distribution for you. This issue makes my blood boil every time it is posted on these mailing lists. Hands on ALSO refers to being proactive in discovering bugs and reporting them to the bug database on crux.nu. I should shut up and stop doing your work because you obviously have not read much...
If you can compile Software, why are you using something like prt-get? I don't think thats only a question what you can do and what not. I think a own mirror will be a good and hands-on thing.
Again, crux is not about holding your hand. Having yet another redundant set of mirrors would little good because you need even further resources in keeping that up to date. As a matter of fact, the whole mirror idea to me sounds like babying. I use crux because it does not babysit, that's a job for the big 4 linux distributions.
About the ports, i agree with ronny. Its not very cool, simple kick them out. If the Maintainer has no time, is there no other? Or why don't ask somebody if he will maintain this Ports. All ports in there own repository isn't a good solution.
This has been said a thousand and one times to infinity, the resources are not there. Nothing in this world is permanent, that is why backups are to be made ;)