I havn't had a look at [current] before. Let me tell you the interpretation for me. For me, [current] should hold base packages. So packages needed to run the system. For me, it could be named "base" as well. Extra is everything i don't need to install to have a system up and running, but what gives me extra programs which i can use, as the desktop system of my choice, chat applications, word processing etc. etc. Maybe, also a split into [base] [current] [extra] [community], providing system relevant tools, console tools and similar and extra for gui things. The community also could be split up in console / gui. I head for (in example) for a system without any gui installation, i won't need to update all the dbs all the time - since i don't use them anyway (as my servers).
I'm just shooting around, don't get angry guys, i'm saying this since you are already re-organizing things, which will take some time, and the 2.6.22 kernel with major support for the new network/wlan interface is to be released also (as i know some weeks), what will make some modules completely unnecessary. I've set up a list what in my eyes makes sense. I have missed some things (i'm sure i did, the lists were long). I hope you consider this things, i just represent one (my) point of view to you :). abiword - like koffice. Not commonly used, [extra] or [community], why current? acroread - no need for current, extra / community apache - not a current package, just extra, too common for community blackbox - openbox / fluxbox. keep one of them extra, rest community codecs - extra / community. Also, the license things with this package. cups - extra cyrus - good thing, but can be maintained in community (extept depends - don't know about any packages depending on cyrus) db - barkley db? who uses it? We have the time of sqlite -> extra / communtiy desktop-file-utils -> extra, desktop things were all in extra divx4linux -> good, but community. see codecs, widely used, but no need for the main branch, since it's not required to run any desktop doxygen -> good documentation tool. can be maintained in community though enlightenment -> community / extra. Desktop firefox -> extra, desktop app fonts -> extra and partically community (ms-fonts, gsfonts in example) fvwm -> see enlightenment -> extra / community gkrellm -> extra or community. There are plenty monitors around gftp -> enough ftp programs around. FileZilla maybe to extra, gftp community gtk, gtk2, qt -> extra icewm -> extra / community libgnomexxx -> extra mysql-clients -> extra / community. plenty db interfaces around naim -> community? there are plenty other console clients around x-chat -> extra, NOT community, to broad usage (i think, i use konversation) xf86 / xorg -> extra On 5/9/07, David Rosenstrauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> xmms + addins - should not be that heavily used anymore > > Isn't xmms dead anyway? > > It's been forked off several times - first as bmp, and then as > audacious. Not sure what the activity/status is of the first 2. > Audacious seems to get pretty frequent updates, though. > > DR > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
