Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > 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 ?

Not 'absolutely evil' but it can cause trouble (trust me - e.g. we had
enough fun in devel:laguages:python with python-curl requiring newer
curl and newer curl replacing old curl required by rest of the system on
older distros). I was hoping for a repository without these problems,
which could be safely added as installation source without having to
disable all the time. IMO, in 90% of the cases where some package needs
a newer/older version, someone just needs to sit down and port the
package to the distro. The remaining 10% could then be handled case by case.

And yes, so far I'm interested and I listed myself on your draft page :)

Michal
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