What is the fascination with 'spins'

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On 2/5/07, n0dalus <n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/6/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Heh, that's the game we're trying to play here, figure out what goes on and
> > > what doesn't.
> >
> > It shouldn't be a game at all. We _need_ to be collecting stats on
> > what packages are used the most and then using that to make informed
> > decisions -- not just playing some game of pick and hope.
> >
> > Could this be done with one of the most-used mirror's access logs?
> 
> +1
> 
> Perhaps then we'll stop excluding the F*#$@*# compiler from 'desktop
> installs' since that kills some apps like gnofract4d and makes it
> impossible to build little unix tools.  Contrary to popular belief,
> not everyone who needs the compiler is a developer. People who are
> remarkably non-geeky can manage to ./configure; make ... at least
> until they have to spend a day getting the all the -devel dependencies
> installed which would have been pulled in automatically if they had a
> developer/workstation install.  :)

/+1.

People that use out-of-tree modules (E.g. webcams) and/or binary blob
drivers (ATI, nVidia, etc) might find the lack of a compiler quite...
err... amusing.

- Gilboa