Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tirsdag 12 august 2008 15:20:27 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:54:00 +0300
> "Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have few possible ideas here:
> > 1. Convince community to integrate stable third-party packages into
> > openSUSE Factory
> > 2. Convince community to make a big, united third-party repository
> > 3. Build third-party repo myself in openSUSE build service
> > 4. Build third-party repo myself in private server
> >
> > I really believe that #1 is best idea, but due to opposition I don't
> > know. Perhaps I will need to evaluate other options.
>
> By this I take it you mean something similar to Ubuntu's Universe repo
> or whatever it is?  IMHO I'm not a great fan of the idea.  Why? Well
> sometimes I may just want one package and having the multitude of
> packages that are contained within most likely will lead to conflicts.
>
> I already encounter such issues with a few packages from the Packman
> repos.  Thankfully they are few and far between.

I support #2, provided some rules are applied, for example:

- The packages should be testable during openSUSE development period
- No new packages after openSUSE feature freeze
- The repo is frozen at openSUSE release time
- Everything is built against the openSUSE base

"Traditional" BS repos would remain available of course in the same way as 
now, as a playground for packagers and geeky users, but non-geeks and 
conservative users would have a more manageable and safer way to get 
additional packages, than they do now.
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