Peter Feuerer wrote: > 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 > >
There is no such thing as a release. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
