Mandrake 8.2beta4 and XFce

[Guido Draheim]

I had a look at mdk package some time ago, and IIRC the patch was
outdated but still applies, so the developer over there does just
fetch the latest xfce tarball, and uploads the resulting mdk rpm.
This will lead to the current problems whereas the `make rpm`
packages from CVS will work flawlessly AFAICS. It should be about
easy to add the necessary modifications of the mdk distro with
a patch, IIRC it was just about 
a) the default background color, red for root, mdkblue for users
b) add mdk firstinstall wizard to the startup files.

I have exchanged gpg keys with mandrake to sign mdk rpm packages
but it is a fact that mandrake has not accepted contrib packages
for a long time - I hear disgruntled voices from all around that
quite some of their debian-like habits seem to have gone forever.

To get at a good solution, we should think about a mandrake user
group for xfce, and push an xfce.org derived package brutally
into mandrake, I'm sure this would make better chances than just
submitting bug reports which seem to be thrown immediatly into 
the bin during the lastest release cycle for 8.2.

WDYT? cheers, guido                 http://freespace.sf.net/guidod

Es schrieb William Bouterse:
> 
> Okay this is ridiculous......
> 
> Mandrake beta4 still has the same permission problem
> with the default xfce install..."cannot create file"
> 
> I understand one of the main kde packagers for mandrakesoft also packages
> XFce unless this has changed recently...Obviously if this is true then the
> poor fellow must rarely have any time to do anything with xfce due to the
> massive flux and size of kde...
> 
> Is their anyone on this list with the competence to package for mandrakesoft and get this litany of screwups taken care of or has this
> already been tried and their implementation is just plain faulty and
> cannot be changed due to their way of doing things !!??
> I have used Mandrake for several years and XFce for longer so I must
> admit if they continue to refuse to recognize the qualtiy of the WM they
> keep "jerking around" with their rpm implementation I may be led to
> other distos again !!?
> 
> Its a good thing I am not a conspiracy theorist or one might wonder if
> they are casually sabatoging XFce's use by new users through neglect...
> 
> Thanks for listening to my rant if you have gotten this far !!
> 
> Mandrake 8.2rc1 has just been released..I wonder if this has been fixed.?
> 
> William Bouterse
> Talkeetna, Ak
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