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

Tue Oct 12 22:44:50 CEST 2010

Le mardi 12 octobre 2010 22:24:29, Anssi Hannula a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+Reason why Mandriva splitted between main and contrib was that main comes with 
+a guarantee from Mandriva while contrib doesn't. Mageia may not adopt such a 
+difference
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+Olivier
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