Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Wasn't the original plan to package 'useful utilities' or something
> among these lines? Now adding this old compiler just to be able to
> compile a package written in historic C++ (didn't we talk about
> maintainability / upstream support?), this old library because another
> project didn't catch up with api changes (likewise), this new library
> because this cool app unfortunately requires features only found in svn
> HEAD of said library - where does this stop? I'm affraid that without a
> hard rule of not duplicating packages from the distro, the new
> repository won't be much different from existing repos (and I'm not sure
> I would still want to participate in that).

Hmmm...
So you believe this is absolutely evil ?

What other people are thinking on this topic ?

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
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