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

Tue Sep 21 03:21:27 CEST 2010

On 20 September 2010 12:32, atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com> wrote:
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+> I'm agree with this opinion as i wrote a minute ago to the UK user
+> community? subject. But as you know we, therd party packagers are not
+> well experienced packagers. An official packager should review our
+> packages and aasist to correct issues. So, we can learn more and
+> provide better packages. As a result users can reach their needs from
+> official contrib or communtiy repo.
+>
+> 2010/9/20 Oliver Burger <burger at webgis.de>:
+> > 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
+> >
+> > 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. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
+> >> > tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
+> >> > repository (MVT)
+> >>
+> >> 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. Currently we need to focus all our
+> >> efforts in Mageias official repositories and avoid as much as possible
+> >> having too many different repositories. Programs are usually not
+> >> territory dependant.
+> >>
+> >> That's out of subject anyway, but I wanted to tell clearly my opinion on
+> >> this. Remember : Mageia takes back the same spirit of easy to use and
+> >> simplicity that comes form Mandriva and Mandrake. Fiddling with many
+> >> extra repositories is then what we do not want to hear about. This would
+> >> even force people to be members or to visit the website to add the repo
+> >> and then access te program they were looking for. So, that's just no to
+> me.
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+> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+> >
+> > Oliver Burger
+> > burger at webgis.de
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+yes i totaly agree with this. 1 collection of packages available for all
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