On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:39 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote: > Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > > packages are not the nightly builds of <insert_your_fav_app> but ones > > > like xorg-server? > > > > In the preceding conversations some have said they would. The whole > > point of his repo is to maintain separate versions of xorg-server sans > > some bloat. > > IMO, custom packages providing different functionality (or having > important different dependencies for that matter) should have different > names, e.g. nvidia-beta, kernel26-bfs, skype-oss, [kdemod-*], [nightly]. > At the very least, it allows for for faster troubleshooting. Again, IMO. > =) There's been plenty of opinions in this discussion. I'd tend to agree that different names for significantly different functionality/patching is necessary, but for some compile-time options REMOVING functionality? Probably still a yes, but much more open to interpretation.
