On Monday 29 March 2010 08:07:06 Marius Vollmer wrote: > all the good stuff in them, because they know that these repositories > are well-maintained and backed by a community: packages are not > abandoned, and they can expect them to be updated when necessary.
Yes, we have not talked about this much but if you take a look at the gronmayer list now, you'll see that a good chunk of repos there has shut down, taking into oblivion their packages, too, and to make things worse, they nearly all miss the source section (most likely an unintentional oversight). Also, consider that the QA/testing process we have is a 'light' (and occasionally buggy ;) version of what happens in large distros (i.e. if you have trouble complying with Maemo's requirements, Debian stable compliance is lightyears away). The historical distros have all been through this phase of 'zillion packages from all over the net' and evolved towards centralized repositories for a reason (while keeping the *ability* to install whatever you want). I still think (and will lobby for) maemo.org supported PPAs as a recommended (not forced !) solution for testing/devel/procedural problems, instead of general repository anarchy. Regards, Attila _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
