On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 01:51:36PM -0800, Scott Rotondo wrote: > I agree that it would be better to integrate these FOSS "familiarity" > packages in /contrib, at least initially. It would be a more accurate > portrayal of what people are actually getting from us. > > Part of the problem seems to be that there is no good place to keep the > source code. The choices seem to be:
No, that's not a problem, much less the main problem: the /contrib effort includes a source repository (see SourceJucr). The main problem has to do with usability, trust and perception, and boils down to: should /contrib be enabled in default installs? There may also be other problems such as what happens when a pkg is migrated from /contrib to /release, whether folks integrating into /contrib are careful about such minutiae as putting section 8 manpages in section 4, etcetera. But IMO the usability/trust issue is foremost. Nico --
