On 03/27/18 at 03:13pm, Dragon ryu via arch-general wrote: > 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. To be clear, votes don't matter for a package to be moved to [community]. Some popular packages with many votes simply can't enter the repository due to licensing or no interest of the TU's to maintain it. -- Jelle van der Waa
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