[Mageia-dev] qt3-devel needed for Trinitydesktop (KDE 3.5 successor)

Wed Mar 23 22:19:24 CET 2011

Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> writes:
+
+>> I certainly don't have the web space and bandwidth resources for a
+>> repository and frankly I joined Mageia as a packager precisely because I
+>> thought Mageia would finally make confusing and conflicting third party
+>> repos (like Mandriva has) obsolete.
+>>
+>>
+>> We can host repositories for you, if Mageia is unwilling to accept them -
+>> you could make a kde3 rpm that adds the necessary sources to use. Or, Mageia
+>> could make an official kde3 repository that is disabled by default but can
+>> be enabled on installer/rpmdrake. I'm not the expert at this, though :-/
+>> that's mageia dev decisions.
+>
+> no a special repo hosted by mageia is not a good idea, we will not
+> start to do repo for all that way. This need  to be external,
+> independant repository.
+> If you can host it this would be perfect.
+
+This would be a mess, like previously with Mandriva and its few
+third-party repositories with various quality level, where the distro
+packaging policy can't be enforced.
+This is bad for end-users.
+
+Why not include TrinityDE in Mageia repos?
+If not conflicting with KDE4, not having similar provides, and not even
+installed by default, it seems ok to include it in the distro.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+