Aaron Griffin wrote: > On 5/9/07, Roman Kyrylych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2007/5/9, Eric Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>>> Minimize kernel patchsets supported by [extra] >>>> Yeah, that's a big one too. The -beyond patchset has died, so that's >>>> one down. We have ck, suspend2, and ummmm... >>> Alternatively, you could keep the kernels but only provide drivers for the >>> vanilla one. I believe iphitus was working on a script to have these >>> rebuild automatically for other kernels than kernel26. Any news on that? >>> >>>>> Perl modules which are not base of some program / script >>>> Yes, this is a big one. I'm going to scan all packages for those that >>>> are not required by anything else. >>> You could do the same for python modules and libraries. >>> >> About perl modules etc. >> xterminus did a script for building CPAN modules automatically and >> even setup a repo for them (managed automatically too). >> He is inactive now and thus a move of those packages to community didn't >> happen. >> I think we should contact him again about the status of that work. >> AUR has a ton of perl-blah-blah-blah packages, that could be better >> managed with that tool. > > I almost like the fact that these are in a separate repo. It seems > more idealistic to me - "this repo does X" instead of "this repo has > some of this and some of this, and audacity, and screen-cvs". But > that's just me. The complication comes from the fact that setting up > pacman for multipl repos on-the-fly seems a little ungainly. > I had an idea like this in another _long_ thread :) ( i doubt plenty ppl read it to the end). Like you mention the complication comes from discovering and configuring repos into pacman. If we accept this as a new first class activity, a tool could be built to handle searching for repos and adding them to pacman config. If it all handles cleanly (think repoman) or something.
I think there's really something to this idea higher abstaction of repos as something we actually officially deal with and can be contributed, setup and thorn down. > But I'm just blathering here... > I'm equally just blathering here... > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > arch@archlinux.org > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
