2018年3月27日(火) 23:57 Sudarshan Kakoty via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello... > > I was reading "Arch Wiki" and felt curious about that difference > between extra and community repo. > > Some packages, such as "meson" is in the "extra" repo, whereas "ninja" > is in "community" repo. The interesting fact is that - is an implicit > dependency to "meson". So why that is (ninja) in the community repo? > > Also, some critical GNOME specific packages are part of the community > repo. Even, some compilers, like Haskell is also part of the community > repo. What is the exact difference between extra and community > repository? > > I wonder, Is it really important to have that split? > -- > Sudarshan Kakoty <skakoty1337@xxxxxxxxx> > simply saying. community is TU managed repo; mostly from AUR by vote. extra is higher than that. >
