Guido Berhoerster wrote:
So we have two categories of packages left which cannot be in Factory, firstly software which is inherently insecure and cannot be maintained in Factory and secondly software which is volatile in nature. Do you have some examples or even numbers for these categories? [...] Given that there is even a large enough number of packages for both categories how about creating something like openSUSE:*:Volatile and openSUSE:*:Insecure instead of Contrib?
The only argument pro separate repos is that it prevents accidental build dependencies on such packages. From a user's point of view there is not much difference. As soon as the "crap" repo is enabled you need to look very closely to find out where a package comes from. Some kind of tag that makes e.g. zypper display "this package has a bad security reputation, use XXX instead" would be more useful. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org