On 25 Oct 2006, at 13:47, Konstantin Käfer wrote:
To be honest, I can't really see the point in providing Drupal with a Linux distribution. Most users won't need it and those who do are usually skilled enough to do that themselves (at least they are using Gentoo and not Windows). Packaging contrib modules doesn't make that much sense to me as well because it's just unzipping a tarball into the modules directory (or wherever you install the module to). The actual installation has to happen inside of Drupal anyway.
We have a lot of people that install Drupal using Debian's apt-get. Having to download and un-tar 10 tarballs is a pain. Also, Gentoo automatically recompiles Apache, PHP and/or MySQL if certain features are missing, and might as well configure Apache. In short, there are many good reasons to support packagers like Gentoo, and I'd like to see us actively support them (eg. don't re-create tarballs, upgrades from the command line, etc.). It is sad to see this discussion side-tracked. The purpose of this discussion is NOT to debate why packagers exist (that is not what Seemant asked for), but to figure out how we can better cooperate. The world doesn't care about your opinion about packagers; whatever it is you think about them, they are not going to go away. So if you're not going to help make Drupal better for packagers, don't add noise to the discussion either. It would be a waste of time and bits. Thanks. Seemant: as mentioned, the repackage issue will be fixed in the near feature. Anything else that we could do to make things easier on your side? If so, I'd love to learn more about it, so we can work on it. (Thanks for Gentoo. I'm a long time Gentoo user.) -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/