On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 18:29, Michael Scherer <misc@zarb.org> wrote:

The problem I see with ppa is they lack basic quality control, they
often interfere with upgrade and when they break, people blame the
distribution. There is also non user friendly inter-ppa requires.

So personally, I would rather try to ease the usage of iurt first ( wit
documentation , etc ) and let people host everything them self. Having
this on our servers would mean to most people we endorse the package,
and I think we shouldn't unless we are sure of the quality
( which usually mean "adding rules that people will complain about until
they open 3rd party repository saying how much we are useless because we
couldn't provide 'foo' rpm in a updated optimized version" ).

The only major problem with hosting iurt/jurt/whatever is that it requires either full repositories locally or very good network connection for everything, and - in both cases - tons of disk space..

But yes, I got your point, and I agree with it. Perhaps instead of full 'PPAs' it would be possible to have some sort of iurt-powered public repositories. For example, http://people..../~user dirs with 'upload' directory there, where someone could put src.rpms and they would be recompiled and stored in http://people.../~user/{i586,x86_64,arm} when done, with full hdlists.