On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 12:18 +0200, Christian Schmidt wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 12:08:30PM +0200, Peter Feuerer wrote: > > Hi archers, > > > > I was wondering, why you don't tag the extra repo with the release tags > > like you do with the current repo? That should not be such a big effort. > > > > Additionally it would be great to have at least the packages of the > > extra repo (maybe also the once of the community repo) of every arch > > release stored somewhere. This would enable to get a real (with desktop > > environment and so on) installation of arch of the time the release x.y. > > was launched. Because I dont think the base packages are enough, if > > somebody wants to stick to a release. > > > > --peter > > One single question: why? Arch is meant to be rolling-release-distro. It > is not intended to "stick with a release". The releases are just there > to make the installation easier. If you want to stick with a release, > you most likeley chose the wrong distribution. > > Christian // mucknert
I think it would not be much effort, and you'll give the users the choice of sticking to a release or not. So the question is, why not? The only reason I see to not doing this is because of the diskspace this "additional" packages need. And if the releases are just there for easier installations, why do you still keep older releases? --peter _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
