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

[John Bowden]

On 20 September 2010 12:32, atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm agree with this opinion as i wrote a minute ago to the UK user
> community? subject. But as you know we, therd party packagers are not
> well experienced packagers. An official packager should review our
> packages and aasist to correct issues. So, we can learn more and
> provide better packages. As a result users can reach their needs from
> official contrib or communtiy repo.
>
> 2010/9/20 Oliver Burger <burger at webgis.de>:
> > 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
> >
> > 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. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
> >> > tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
> >> > repository (MVT)
> >>
> >> 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. Currently we need to focus all our
> >> efforts in Mageias official repositories and avoid as much as possible
> >> having too many different repositories. Programs are usually not
> >> territory dependant.
> >>
> >> That's out of subject anyway, but I wanted to tell clearly my opinion on
> >> this. Remember : Mageia takes back the same spirit of easy to use and
> >> simplicity that comes form Mandriva and Mandrake. Fiddling with many
> >> extra repositories is then what we do not want to hear about. This would
> >> even force people to be members or to visit the website to add the repo
> >> and then access te program they were looking for. So, that's just no to
> me.
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yes i totaly agree with this. 1 collection of packages available for all
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