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[Felix-Nicolai Müller <fnmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Michal Marek schrieb:
> 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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To get around this problem all we have to do is give the OSS and non-oss
repos as well as update higher priorities in the respective package
managers (at least if geoIP does not explicitly has the apache from the
same repo as a requirement).
There is no need to reorganize the whole Repo system for this reason.

Felix
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