Tirsdag 12 august 2008 15:20:27 skrev Andrew Wafaa:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:54:00 +0300 "Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@gmail.com> wrote:
I have few possible ideas here: 1. Convince community to integrate stable third-party packages into openSUSE Factory 2. Convince community to make a big, united third-party repository 3. Build third-party repo myself in openSUSE build service 4. Build third-party repo myself in private server
I really believe that #1 is best idea, but due to opposition I don't know. Perhaps I will need to evaluate other options.
By this I take it you mean something similar to Ubuntu's Universe repo or whatever it is? IMHO I'm not a great fan of the idea. Why? Well sometimes I may just want one package and having the multitude of packages that are contained within most likely will lead to conflicts.
I already encounter such issues with a few packages from the Packman repos. Thankfully they are few and far between.
I support #2, provided some rules are applied, for example: - The packages should be testable during openSUSE development period - No new packages after openSUSE feature freeze - The repo is frozen at openSUSE release time - Everything is built against the openSUSE base "Traditional" BS repos would remain available of course in the same way as now, as a playground for packagers and geeky users, but non-geeks and conservative users would have a more manageable and safer way to get additional packages, than they do now. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org