[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 17:59:03 CET 2010


Op zaterdag 27 november 2010 17:20:34 schreef Jerome Quelin:
> On 10/11/26 22:29 +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> > The "core" should be only maintained free/libre stuff so it's easy
> > to build a free/libre iso
> > 
> > "extra" is for those packages that no-one really maintain, but is
> > still used by someone
> 
> i'm not sure "extra" is needed. either it compiles, and then it's
> shipped. or it doesn't, and then it's dropped.
> 
> the less repositories we have, the easier it'll be.
> 
> jérôme

i agree, the less repositories the easier it'll be.

however, core is for all the "maintained" packages, extra is for the 
unmaintained packages that build ok.


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