On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped 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
If anyone would want to go through the trouble of deleting/moving packages in svn, I will gladly go and delete things on gerolde.
