On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> wrote: > I do, however, want to repeat my point that this kind of thing is likely > to be quite divisive even outside one distro. Donations from end-users > are highly likely to go mainly to highly visible projects, such as > Firefox/Iceweasel and LibreOffice. Those projects are of course deserving > the support, but it leaves all the less-visible but crucially important > projects without the support. Which end user is going to realise that, > say, freetype or GNU Make or, say, piuparts, even exists?
The donate mechanism probably could be extended to increase donation awareness of important libraries/tools since apt knows what is really needed for each package even if end users may not. Maybe something can be done like: $ donate --build-depends $5 libreoffice to donate to libreoffice and everything that allows it to exist $ donate debian-infrastructure $ donate debian-qa could check metadata for some pseudo-package and donate accordingly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cang8-da6vzmmr5tampbrzvbe8svhyadkh7dn6jzqska1p4r...@mail.gmail.com
