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The mirror tree is +</I>><i> what some people will see about Mageia and I do think: +</I>><i> - people content must be related to mageia +</I>Well, RPMS compiled for mageia are by definition related to mageia :-) +><i> - everything that can be included in the distrib must provide as RPMs +</I>><i> using BS +</I>Well this would allow the chroot to fetch packages from these +alternatives repositories and could automate the process. +><i> - people content must respect our policies. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an +</I>><i> idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for +</I>><i> testing purpose. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > Will users be able to add this as another repository ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I don't know any process to deny someone to push hdlists and rpms. +</I>><i> However I don't think it is a good idea to use this space as an +</I>><i> alternative to oficial mageia. The risk is to confuse people. +</I>Well, I don’t think it’s about confusing people, after all these +packages are in a different subtree than regular packages, rather +giving choice. I know at least one person who said on #mageia-de that +mageia would be a no-go for him if he couldn’t have awesome. + +In Gentoo you have the ability to define your own USE flags to tweak +your system to your needs. Here’s what it says when you activate the xcb +flag and emerge cairo: + +WARN: postinst +You have enabled the Cairo XCB backend which is used only by +a select few apps. The Cairo XCB backend is presently +un-maintained and needs a lot of work to get it caught up +to the Xrender and Xlib backends, which are the backends used +by most applications. See: +<A HREF="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-December/004139.html</A> + +I thought about using a README.urpmi to show in the %post section in a +similar way. Of course we’re not gentoo and as we provide precompiled +packages it doesn’t allow us to do things in a similar way (though we +could provide some mechanisms like AUR for arch). + +The whole idea is that some people won’t feel “ghettoized” because they +use something different than KDE or GNOME, though the concept can be +extended to anything and not just window managers/desktop environments. +><i> +</I>><i> Also, I'd like to notice this space is not a way to provide your own +</I>><i> project, there is platform for that (sourceforge, zarb, gnu, etc...) +</I>Don’t get me wrong here, I was not talking about hosting a project, just +packages for mageia. + +Regards, +-- +Rémy CLOUARD +() ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail +/\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 230 bytes +Desc: not available +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20101021/ae9f457e/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="001321.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="001322.html">[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#1317">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#1317">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#1317">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#1317">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |