Ng Oon-Ee wrote: > > I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's > > custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided > > packages are not the nightly builds of <insert_your_fav_app> but ones > > like xorg-server? > > In the preceding conversations some have said they would. The whole > point of his repo is to maintain separate versions of xorg-server sans > some bloat.
IMO, custom packages providing different functionality (or having important different dependencies for that matter) should have different names, e.g. nvidia-beta, kernel26-bfs, skype-oss, [kdemod-*], [nightly]. At the very least, it allows for for faster troubleshooting. Again, IMO. -- X.