Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (422 mails)

[Guido Berhoerster <gber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [2010-12-04 11:15]:
> On 2010-12-04 10:46:23 (+0100), Detlef Reichelt <detlef@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:19:55 +0100
> > schrieb Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > I personally agree that packages that could also be on
> > > build.opensuse.org should go there instead of being in the Packman
> > > repository but, unfortunately, not everyone in the Packman team
> > > agrees.
> >
> > because i don't want to split my packages in thousand repos on OBS.
> > An example:
> > I stopped building claws-mail on PackMan because it is in Gnome/Apps.
> > After that i get many mails why i don't build it on PM anymore: "it was
> > nice to have that in PM-Repo so it could be installed without add more
> > repos...."
>
> I agree, there are lots of packages that we have or used to have in
> Packman for historical reasons, in the sense that we were already
> packaging them there before the openSUSE Build Service even existed (or
> had those packages). Let's not forget that Packman was already around at
> S.u.S.E. Linux times :)
>
> The thing is though that there are at least as many people who complain
> that, with Packman, they do not only get the multimedia packages (codecs
> and many applications), but also updates for lots and lots of other
> stuff, and they don't want that.

That could be solved technically by splitting Packman into two
repositories, one with packages which cannot be included into
openSUSE for legal reasons and one with everything else (and that
sort of exists already for Factory).

-- 
Guido Berhoerster
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