Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-08 Thread Cazzaniga Sandro
Le 08/07/2011 12:28, Colin Guthrie a écrit : > I think also the ppa-purge tool is quite useful (I've not used it > myself, just read instructions of it's use) which can aid the "purging" > of a given PPA's packages and the installation of the offical packages > needed to solve any dependency "holes

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-08 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Eugeni Dodonov at 07/07/11 22:38 did gyre and gimble: > But as for QA, yes, this is true. Probably the best solution for it was > Meego's one, in the n800 era - when you install something from > non-official repo it shows a window saying 'You are installing something > that could

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Funda Wang
2011/7/8 Michael Scherer : > There is nothing planned yet. ( we do not even have enough servers to > have a shell for packagers or others :/ ) > > The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they > often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the > distribution.

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Eugeni Dodonov
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:40, Cazzaniga Sandro wrote: > Le 07/07/2011 23:38, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit : > > But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full > > 'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public > > repositories. For example, http://people...

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Cazzaniga Sandro
Le 07/07/2011 23:38, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit : > But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full > 'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public > repositories. For example, http://people/~user dirs with 'upload' > directory there, where someone cou

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Eugeni Dodonov
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:29, Michael Scherer wrote: > The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they > often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the > distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires. > > So personally, I would rather try

Re: [Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Michael Scherer
Le jeudi 07 juillet 2011 à 17:50 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit : > Hi folks, > > don't know if it was discussed previously, but I could not find it in the > archives. > > Are there some plans for any kind of ppa-like repos in Mageia/BS? There are > some cases where they could be useful. One speci

[Mageia-dev] PPA-like repos

2011-07-07 Thread Eugeni Dodonov
Hi folks, don't know if it was discussed previously, but I could not find it in the archives. Are there some plans for any kind of ppa-like repos in Mageia/BS? There are some cases where they could be useful. One special case which comes to mind is wayland packaging - I was discussing with Floria