On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 00:20 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
Rather than focus purely on packaging standards, I think it'd be better
for such a group to eliminate pointless differences between distributions
by producing a series of informal RFC type documents. I am meaning
differences like some distros supporting /etc/profile.d and others not, or
using different locations for LinuxThreads, or different ways of parallel
installing libpng.
Well, I did spend a lot of sweat trying to just get the libpng
maintainers to eliminate that particular problem back when the problem
appeared ;-) which would have been easier!
If there is genuine interest in this, I'll bump it much nearer
the top of
my priority list. I don't mind trying to kick start such a forum, though
I'd appreciate the thoughts of Havoc Pennington on this though. I think
freedesktop.org just kind of grew out of the EWMH effort, but I wasn't
around at that time.
What do you want my thinking on?
freedesktop.org was not really based on
EWMH, that I can remember. I started it by writing the mission
statement:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/MissionStatement
well, maybe it's been edited a bit over the years, I don't know. But it
was roughly like that always.
Havoc