Hi,

> We have asked may times for volunteers to help us put all of those
> scientific applications into SL.  The only thing we ever get is "please
> put in so.and.so".  We do not get "Yes, I will help you put in these
> scientific applications".

We talked about making a contrib RPM for root, but my colleague who maintains 
the root installations at our site is somewhat reluctant to pack root into a 
rpm. He says root is too much of a moving target to have it burn into a rpm.

Usually we have 3 installations of root on our systems in parallel (old, new, 
prod) to maintain binary compatibility. This would be hard to do with RPM's.
What we do: root sits on a shared (NFS) storage, so we don't have to install 
it on every desktop, they just use the shared storage.

Of course it would be easier with a rpm to maintain all those notebooks ....

Sincerly,
Klaus

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