On 2010-12-04 10:46:23 (+0100), Detlef Reichelt <detlef@die-mafia.de> wrote:
Am Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:19:55 +0100 schrieb Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org>:
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. We can't please everyone I guess (although Tumbleweed might actually address part of that "problem"), and the concept we have been following for openSUSE is to split into repositories to enable people to pick what they want to update, at the expense of having to add multiple repositories. Yet the only repository that is not aligned with that concept is Packman. Another side effect of that, obviously, is duplicating work, a lot, and not getting the same package names or patches depending on whether you install from Packman or from, say, GNOME:Apps. And it's not like we have infinite resources (both human and build hardware wise) at Packman either :\
But with an project like Tumbleweed wich has nearly the same goals as the PM-Repo, i would move my packages. ;)
:) cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org