On 2001-08-09, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
>> It should not end as
>> a place where to put arbitrary packages of questionable interest.
>
>I tend to disagree about this particular one: There are a number of
>packages that are very useful only to a very limited number of people
>(think of apps supporting people with disabilities - the packages are of
>no use to maybe 95% of our users, but they're vital to the remaining 5%),
>and we do need a repository for those.
>
>So what we need is, basically, both a place for people to work on packages
>that are interesting to the majority of people, but also a collection of
>packages that are of no use to most people.
Agreed with the first section.
Remains the question how to deal with packages submitted and used by
no one (or hardly anyone) other than the packager? ;-) The answer
probably leads to some mixture of applying common sense and letting
some moderator(s) judge about the usefulness of a package.
Rather than enhanced search capabilities for a bloated software
archive, a clever download/access/activity counting system would be
more useful.
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