Re: Re: 7.1 RPMs

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

> > Do we need to start thinking about an RPM mailing list? Seems there is
> > lots of traffic.
>
> The delete key is your friend. So is procmail, if you just can't stand
> to see the letters "R", "P", and "M" too close together ;)
>
> I'm not a big fan of the trend to fork off a mailing list anytime more
> than a few messages on a single topic come through. The synergy and
> cross-pollination that we get by having us all see various topics wrt
> development far outweigh the minor annoyance to some on having to delete
> topics they don't find interesting.
>
> As an example, RPM building is only a part of the general packaging of
> PostgreSQL, but it illustrates issues which anyone touching
> configuration or Makefiles should be aware of. So forcing "those Linux
> people" onto some specialty list weakens the knowledge base we all could
> draw from.
>
> All imho of course...

agreed, that's why I was kinda thinking maybe some sort of 'build' list
... something that deals with configure, makefile and packaging issues ...