On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Detlef Reichelt <[email protected]> wrote: > Moin, > > what should we do in the future? What is the goal of PackMan? > > Should we build only multimedia and non crippled stuff for openSUSE? > > Detlef
I think the best approach would be, wherever it is allowed by OBS policy, to merge Packman packages into the appropriate semi-official repositories. They can be linked from there in Packman, but they should "live" in the appropriate OBS project. This should not substantially increase the workload for Packman packagers, since it is only a couple of clicks to submit packages back to their "official" repo. An additional possibility would be for these packages to be linked into a Packman repo on the official OBS instance. The reason for this is to free up build resources on the Packman servers. Packman's OBS can then just aggregate all these files into Packman's OBS servers so they appear in Packman's repos without needing to be rebuilt on Packman's servers. This would allow Packman maintainers to control the packages while using the OBS servers to do the building, while being transparent to users. This has the added advantage that anyone worried about non-oss or patent-encumbered packages will be able to use the OBS packman instead of the official one. The possible disadvantage is that it might cause some confusion amongst users. -Todd _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
