On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:09:02 -0500 Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 06 May 2011 15:28:29 +0200 > > Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:13 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > >> > On 06/05/11 17:31, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:38:14 -0300 > >> >> adding exceptions in download-repo.sh to work around limitations in our > >> >> repo scripts is not the way to go imho. let's get those packages out > >> >> of core the proper way, and let's see if/how we can cut another 10MB. > >> >> > >> > > >> > That limitation in the devtools/db-scripts has been around ever since > >> > split packages became available in pacman/makepkg. I would not bank > >> > on it getting fixed in the short term (or even in the long term...) > >> > >> I wont got into details here but putting split packages into different > >> repos is a "wont implement". It's more a limitation of how we use svn > >> and the repos. There was a thread about the details on the mailing list. > > > > I can't find that thread. Where exactly was this discussed? > > I understand this is probably hard to fix, on the other hand: > > 1) this is a violation of what the core repository is for (and we had a very > > extensive discussion on that recently). see > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_repositories#.5Bcore.5D > > 2) it makes the core repo bigger than it should be, which makes my job > > harder. > Hi Dan, > since you seem to think it is so trivial to implement- I actually said the exact opposite. Maybe you should read what I said first. > Pierre clearly stated why we aren't able to do this at this time He only referred to a prior discussion which I could not find back, so I asked for the link. > being told our work isn't good enough really sucks the fun out of it. (blah > blah blah) > Not to sound like an ass, putting words I didn't say in my mouth and flaming me does make you sound like one. I guess it can sometimes be hard to interpret the intention behind my (or anyone elses) e-mails, which can have caused a misunderstanding. Either way bad-mouthing anyone was not my intention. Dieter
