On 5 February 2014 12:57, Anatol Pomozov <[email protected]> wrote: > I still need to understand why Arch community is split into two groups > 'developers' and 'trusted users'. They seems have similar > responsibilities: maintaining packages and developing Arch toolset.
For historical reasons: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_repository#History The [community] repository began as a binary repository for the AUR. It still retains that function, but the split is no longer as pronounced. Basically, slightly popular packages go into [community], and very popular ones into [extra]. The [extra] repo has a tighter control over what goes in, whereas [community] is almost open. Both groups have useful people: the pacman, core and early userspace folks, and the AUR back-end folks. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
