[Mageia-discuss] Repositories: Was [UK user community?]

[Oliver Burger]

Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com>
>   Le 20/09/2010 12:53, atilla ontas a écrit :
> > Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
> > won't placed in official repos.
> Just a not : I am against this form of packaging only for a group of
> people. Anywhere in the world someone who wants to study a language,
> turkish for xample, may need it.

I totally agree with Thomas,

as some may know, the German community has their own repo as well. The reason 
was the somehow difficult procedure in contributing packages to Mandriva.
But: we have decided to contribute to mageia directly in the future. Like 
Thomas said, many Third-party repos make it difficult for the users to find and 
install packages. It also leads to dependency problems sometimes, when 
packages from different third party repos collide.
And even if there are packages which are only of use to people with some 
language, nationality and so on. Why shouldn't they be in the official repos. 
E.g. I don't speak any asian language but the tools for those languages did 
never disturb me. They were just there in the repo without ane sideeffects to 
my system...

Oliver