[Mageia-dev] Mageia repository sections, licenses, restrictions, firmware etc

Tue Oct 12 22:24:29 CEST 2010

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 18:18:41 Jerome Quelin wrote:
+> On 10/10/12 18:02 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
+> > Do people have any thoughts on what kind of repository/media sectioning
+> > we should use on Mageia, and what should those sections contain?
+> > 
+> > == Do we want a separated core repository?
+> > 
+> > No separated core: Fedora, Debian, Opensuse
+> > Separated core: Mandriva (main), Ubuntu (main), Arch (Core)
+> 
+> i'd rather have no separated core repository. it's really not funny to
+> fail some builds in core because of deps in contrib: understanding why
+> the build fails, requesting the move to main, waiting for someone with
+> move powers to act, waiting for hdlist to be rebuilt and finally,
+> finally resubmit the job... -ENOFUN!
+> 
+> now, i guess this will also depend of the support policy we decide for
+> mageia. but i'd really, really like *not* to split main & contrib (or
+> whatever their names are).
+
+I'd have to agree.
+
+However, if we'll only support a subset of the packages, it needs to be very 
+clear for everyone what packages are supported and whatnot (meaning notable 
+notifications in rpmdrake, etc).
+
+.. though AFAICS Mandriva didn't make this clear at all either, unless users 
+went to the wiki page to read the media descriptions. We should do better.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+