Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (293 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* jdd <jdd@xxxxxxxxx> [Jul 23. 2006 14:57]:
> Pascal Bleser wrote:
> 
> >Now, with those patterns, if they're not a closed, well-defined list of
> >options to choose from, we will most probably end up with chaos.
> 
> this point deserve to be better seen.
> 
> It's probably essential to have a closed set of patterns. We 
> can (we must :-) discuss _before_ launching the system, but 
> after that the modification of the pattern list should be 
> very difficult.

Think of patterns as of packages. By adding an external repo,
extending the patterns list should be fairly easy.

Of course, the same traps as with packages exist. One can't
prevent name (or content) clashes. But you can minimize them
by being as open as possible.

Klaus

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