On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:18:51AM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 08:27, Aleksey Lim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think having central [meta-db] has many benefits: > > - collaboration: everybody works in one "trunk" > > not doing the same work while packaging sugar for various distros > > patches/content could be moved from [backends] level to [meta-db] level > > and everybody could benefit from that > > - flexibility: we could choose any format for sugar packaging, > > it needs only proper templates > > - central db is the simplest way to discover sugar and adding new components > > > > Note: > > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DeploymentTeam/jhconvert > > could be considered as one of the possible prototypes > > Sounds good to me if packagers think that will help them. in fact, its only my own outlook (while packaging sugar for gentoo and alt) I couldn't say for all packagers. Besides, it could be hard to maintain for significantly amount of distros (but valuable for small distros).
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