[users] Acroread package - never updated?

[RpmForge4Bill]

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> Hello, Todd, Margo & Bill,
> <snip>

> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 17:20 -0800, Todd and Margo Chester wrote:
> 
>> Not to make a stupid comment, but there is a new RPM for
>> Acrobat Reader out on Adobe's site:
>>
>>      $ ls -ag AdobeReader*
>>      -rw-r--r-- 1 users 49491078 Feb 14 20:58
>>       AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2-1.i486.rpm
>>
>> And it is only 50 MB.
> 
> I think he just meant that anything binary proprietary and > 20 Mbs
> can't be tolerated and is not worth the efforts to maintain <g>. This is
> perfectly understandable though it does not make our lives easier.

If there were enough RPMforge folks requesting it, I'm sure he would 
give it a second look. I know he tries to maintain stuff that will find 
enough users to justify the effort, space, bandwidth, etc. Without an 
acceptable level of community need, there is little justification for 
all the additional expense (in terms of resources).

As long as there a suitable alternatives that meet the needs of most 
users and there is no groundswell of users asking for the Adobe product, 
I would not expect him to change his POV on that.

> 
> Thanks,
>  

-- 
Bill