Am Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:14:23 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I had this thought during the above discussion about compat-wireless: > Do we really need unstable? Almost nobody uses it and let's see which > packages are in there: > > opera-devel > firefox3 > kernel26mm > fvwm-devel > gimp-devel > reiser4progs + dependencies. > openoffice-devel > mplayer-svn > > Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped > anyway (including the external modules for kernel26mm). The packages > that are actually being maintained can IMO be moved to extra. > Everybody who installs a -svn or -devel package probably knows it is > unstable (firefox3 should be renamed to firefox-devel then). > > So I'm asking you: What is the point of having a repository with <30 > packages, half of which are neither used nor maintained? Except maybe > confusion among users (wait? enable unstable? isn't that dangerous?). > opera-devel - this is an exception only until there will be the first 64bit release. later devel releases could be maintained in AUR openoffice-base-devel - i really doubt it would be a good idea to maintain it in AUR - compile time matters here - it should stay somewhere binary (maybe even in extra or permanently in testing) ! -Andy
