On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On (11/01/11 16:01), Calvin Morrison wrote: > -~> 2011/11/1 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > -~> > 2011/11/1 Meyithi <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > -~> >> I don't code, can we please move all coding tools to a separate repo so I > -~> >> don't have to sync it? > -~> >> > -~> >> thanks > -~> > > -~> > You're a troll, you have a separate repo for you add it it's called [troll]. > -~> > > -~> > -~> Actually I think there is a valid point being made. If we created a > -~> repo for [games] why not [browsers], [code], lets just get a repo for > -~> everything! > > First of all, because this has already been done in openSuSE (a separete repo > for texlive, for new KDE/gnome, for multimedia, etc...) -- not cool inho. > > Second, because compilers are needed for core system tasks, browsers are > general purpose software, and so on. This is what [core/extra] are about. > > The point here is to separate apps not by purpose but overall quality. While > you can argue all day long about creating (or not) a repo for security apps, > games definitely fall into a [poor software] category which you can name > [games], [communitty-extra] or whatever. > > -- > Leonid Isaev > GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D > Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D > Let's start by asking why we should change anything at all? I'm aware of http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016170.html but Pierre warned against adding new huge packages, he didn't say TUs need to drop some of the packages they currently maintain. I'm not running a mirror and I have plenty mirrors to sync from in Europe and I don't know how does the current repo structure impact the mirror providers and users w/o any mirrors close to their location.
