[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Mon Nov 29 20:25:04 CET 2010

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, andre999 wrote:
+
+>
+> The idea is not that the Mageia community would not support "extra" 
+> packages.
+> It is just that if an "extra" package breaks, it shouldn't break a user's 
+> system.
+> But if a "core" package breaks, we would expect that it would break many 
+> users' systems.
+> Thus the priority to ensure that "core" packages are always fixed in a 
+> timely manner.
+
+I don't think we need repositories to define bug priorities. If a
+package break the system, the bug report should mention it. And we can
+also have minor bugs in "core" packages not breaking anything. Should
+we fix them in a timely manner, before any critical bug on "extra"
+packages breaking useful applications ?
+
+>>   - 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.
+>>    
+> Core is proposed to be largely "base system & components".  Part of the 
+> idea is to make clearer, to everyone, which packages have an enhanced level 
+> of support.
+> Support time is another (useful) question.
+
+Why do we need two repositories for that ?
+
+>>   - 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.
+>>    
+>
+> We will have to be more selective for core packages, to avoid this problem.
+> Maybe "suggests", or other features being added with rpm5.
+
+Suggests on BuildRequires does not exists. And we need them to be
+installed for the build.
+
+