2008/4/21 Andreas Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped 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) !
Just a remark: AUR includes Community repo too which is binary and devs have access to it. +1 for moving Unstable packages to Extra/Community/Unsupported -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
