[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

Tue Nov 30 02:06:19 CET 2010

nicolas vigier a écrit :
+> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, andre999 wrote:
+>
+>    
+>> The supposed advantages of discarding a set of repositories over having an
+>> obvious sandbox aren't clear.
+>>      
+> I think misc already explained it clearly in this mail :
+> https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20101129/001503.html
+>
+> If you disagree, you can reply to his email. But don't keep repeating
+> that there's not clear drawbacks, that the cost of creating new
+> repositories is almost nil and this kind of thing if you don't have
+> any real arguments.
+>
+>    
+Well you can insist that the mentioned drawbacks are significant, but if 
+you follow my arguments, you will see that I explain why I don't believe 
+they are.
+And I'm not the only one with this point of view.
+It is useful to take a global point of view, with all the factors involved.
+What may seem to be an extra cost for additional repositories is often a 
+cost, whether or not these additional repositories exist, as long as we 
+try to meet certain goals.
+For example, extra repositories for users is a red herring if we propose 
+to give user the choice to ignore what would be in these extra 
+repositories.  Admittedly, not if we choose to deny the user this choice.
+
+As well, some supposed costs make assumptions that we will do things the 
+same way as Mandriva.  But I have presented a different way of doing 
+things, which wouldn't necessarily entail such costs.
+So you like to say that I don't have any real arguments.
+Well I'd say that much of misc's arguments in that post don't hold if we 
+do things in a different way.  In other posts, misc's arguments conform 
+with my point of view.
+
+By the way, I'm *not* proposing creating *new* repositories.  I'm 
+proposing *not removing* some existing repositories, and doing certain 
+things in a different way.
+
+And what are your *real* arguments ?
+