[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 17:08:54 CET 2010

+Le lundi 29 novembre 2010 17:02:36, nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> 
+> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> 
+> > 
+> > Indeed, however it helps showing that there's a set of packages which is supported, and another one which is only on behalf of the maintainer. In a community driven distribution, this distinction may remains valid : some packages are officially supported by the distribution, others may or may not be, depending on the maintainer (or lack of maintainer).
+> 
+> We don't need separate medias to show that there are two sets of
+> packages, supported and unsupported. I think using separate medias adds
+> useless complexity. We could for instance provide a file on api.mageia.org
+> containing the list of officially supported packages. It would also have
+> other advantages :
+>  - You can see how many unsupported packages and which ones are installed
+>    on your system. This is not possible with main/contrib, if you enabled
+>    contrib temporarly to install a few packages.
+>  - You can change the package status (supported/unsupported) after the
+>    release, if needed.
+>  - Some packages can have a different support time. On Mandriva, "Base
+>    system & components" was supported longer, but it was not clear which
+>    packages were part of this.
+>  - This file could also list known security issues for unsupported
+>    and supported packages.
+>  - Some packages have a lot of optional plugins, and we build them all,
+>    adding a lot of build requires. With main/contrib separation we need
+>    to add all the build dependencies to main, even if most of them are
+>    not runtime dependencies.
+> 
+
+Indeed maintaining the list of supported packages outside the repository is an interesting approach (better yet that misc's tag based proposal, I think).
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+
+