Le Lundi 29 Mai 2006 11:17, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : > Le Dimanche 28 Mai 2006 02:52, Evan Vittitow a écrit : > > Updates are only povided to Main. The Contrib packages are too numerous > > and too buggy for Mandriva to support all of them. > > > > the issue I wish would be resolved is urpmi's lack of redundancy in the > > wake of a failed mirror. > > Stephan already replied, and yes your statement is false. The official > difference is that main packages are officially supported. By supported > understand: > > - QA team will reply if you have problem with it, > - Mandriva will officially provide security updates during X month after > the release. > > Having said that, I am not sure QA team is able to answer to everything > related to main media, the location of a package is often an arbitrary > choice. > If a package is usefull, it is moved into main. The usefullness of a > package is hard to define, if it was me openlad would go into contrib, svn > and darcs into main. Fortunaly, I don't have to decide :)
svn is in main now, and openldap is required by lots of main packages, hence a second point : package required to be used by something in main are moved to main. unfortunatly, the contrary is less easy to detect and is less interesting, so few people try to clean main, from what i have seen. I am pretty sure we can move some perl packages to contribs, but someone has to prepare a list ( and in fact, this subject is off topic on this list ). -- Michael Scherer _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
