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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110707/069dd92d/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110707/069dd92d/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ed9dd3124 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/attachments/20110707/069dd92d/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:29, Michael Scherer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misc@zarb.org">misc@zarb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> + + +The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they<br> +often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the<br> +distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires.<br> +<br> +So personally, I would rather try to ease the usage of iurt first ( wit<br> +documentation , etc ) and let people host everything them self. Having<br> +this on our servers would mean to most people we endorse the package,<br> +and I think we shouldn't unless we are sure of the quality<br> +( which usually mean "adding rules that people will complain about until<br> +they open 3rd party repository saying how much we are useless because we<br> +couldn't provide 'foo' rpm in a updated optimized version" ).<br></blockquote><div><br>The only major problem with hosting iurt/jurt/whatever is that it requires either full repositories locally or very good network connection for everything, and - in both cases - tons of disk space..<br> + +<br>But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full 'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public repositories. For example, <a href="http://people.">http://people.</a>.../~user dirs with 'upload' directory there, where someone could put src.rpms and they would be recompiled and stored in <a href="http://people.">http://people.</a>../~user/{i586,x86_64,arm} when done, with full hdlists.<br clear="all"> + +</div></div><br>But as for QA, yes, this is true. Probably the best solution for it was Meego's one, in the n800 era - when you install something from non-official repo it shows a window saying 'You are installing something that could break everything, so you are on your own, good luck'. For install/update, perhaps it could be solved by adding some new installer/updater window which would check of enabled urpmi medias, and if there are any non-official one, it could show a warning or something like it as well.<br> + +<br>-- <br>Eugeni Dodonov<br><a href="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/" target="_blank">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</a><br> |