[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size

Dick Gevers dvgevers at xs4all.nl
Fri Oct 1 20:55:18 CEST 2010


On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 20:11:04 +0200, Olivier Méjean wrote about Re:
[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Mirror size:

>What is the difference between main and contrib ? I mean, it was a 
>understandable for Mandriva, main was rpms "guaranteed" by Mandriva while 
>contrib was not. But now, with a project like mageia there is no longer
>need to separate main from contrib

Why not? If I were an official-release-user I'd want security updates to be
ensured as much on Mageia as on Mandriva. Are we now suddenly able to
guarantee that for all of ex-contrib in main? Or do we leave security
updates out of Mageia? I'd hope not.

Cheers,
=Dick Gevers=


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