Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (475 mails)

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

Dirk Mueller wrote:
> I agree that the diversificatio of home:* is a bad thing. For most bigger 
> parts 
> of the distro (desktops, X11, apache, various other servers) etc there are 
> however "themed" repositores that you can add and you get a whole stack of 
> new 
> packages to test. 
>
> Isn't that almost the same? So is the request just merely asking for an 
> "utils:misc:" repository?

Yes and no. "Themed" repositories are often not just add-ons, but update
packages in the distro. For instance, by adding the Apache repository to
install GeoIP, I also get a newer apache and libapr (OK, apache is
probably not a good example, but let's assume that I want the apache I
got with the distro). OTOH the Contrib repository should only contain
_additional_ packages, so that it can be added as an installation source
without having to worry about possible conflicts. If we take Apache as
an example, if Peter wants, he could request adding GeoIP to Contrib and
link/aggregate it to Apache (*). Then users only interested in GeoIP and
not the newest apache could install it from Contrib.

(*) actually, GeoIP sources are in devel:libraries:c_c++, but there you
get a newer (lib)curl as a bonus, so the problem is the same...

Michal
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