On 04/07/2017 03:35 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bul...@zoho.com> wrote: >> Just that asp is from AUR which isn't an official repository. ABS is in >> the official Extra repository, >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System . > > > Except the reason for that is that arch doesn't need to distribute > that software officially because mostly the people who use it use it > to provide the official distribution with it. It's somewhat a chicken > and egg question. Now that you had to to point out that the software > used to build the official repository is distributed inofficially, > wouldn't that, with the same logic, make the whole distribution > inofficial? Why are we drawing a line there?
Actually, the official repositories use neither ABS or asp for building, and it is ridiculous to suggest they do... not least because neither provide a way to upload anything. The official repos use devtools, which is in fact in the official repos. And it is backed by svn: https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ ABS (backed by tar/rsync) and asp (backed by svntogit) are both read-only mirrors provided for people who aren't Devs/TUs. -- Eli Schwartz
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