[Mageia-discuss] Repositories: Was [UK user community?]

Mon Sep 20 13:32:17 CEST 2010

Thomas Lottmann <skiperdrake at gmail.com>
+>   Le 20/09/2010 12:53, atilla ontas a écrit :
+> > Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
+> > won't placed in official repos.
+> Just a not : I am against this form of packaging only for a group of
+> people. Anywhere in the world someone who wants to study a language,
+> turkish for xample, may need it.
+
+I totally agree with Thomas,
+
+as some may know, the German community has their own repo as well. The reason 
+was the somehow difficult procedure in contributing packages to Mandriva.
+But: we have decided to contribute to mageia directly in the future. Like 
+Thomas said, many Third-party repos make it difficult for the users to find and 
+install packages. It also leads to dependency problems sometimes, when 
+packages from different third party repos collide.
+And even if there are packages which are only of use to people with some 
+language, nationality and so on. Why shouldn't they be in the official repos. 
+E.g. I don't speak any asian language but the tools for those languages did 
+never disturb me. They were just there in the repo without ane sideeffects to 
+my system...
+
+Oliver
+