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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two</H1>
<B>nicolas vigier</B>
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<I>Mon Nov 29 17:02:36 CET 2010</I>
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<PRE>On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
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</I>><i> Indeed, however it helps showing that there's a set of packages which is supported, and another one which is only on behalf of the maintainer. In a community driven distribution, this distinction may remains valid : some packages are officially supported by the distribution, others may or may not be, depending on the maintainer (or lack of maintainer).
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We don't need separate medias to show that there are two sets of
packages, supported and unsupported. I think using separate medias adds
useless complexity. We could for instance provide a file on api.mageia.org
containing the list of officially supported packages. It would also have
other advantages :
- You can see how many unsupported packages and which ones are installed
on your system. This is not possible with main/contrib, if you enabled
contrib temporarly to install a few packages.
- You can change the package status (supported/unsupported) after the
release, if needed.
- Some packages can have a different support time. On Mandriva, "Base
system & components" was supported longer, but it was not clear which
packages were part of this.
- This file could also list known security issues for unsupported
and supported packages.
- Some packages have a lot of optional plugins, and we build them all,
adding a lot of build requires. With main/contrib separation we need
to add all the build dependencies to main, even if most of them are
not runtime dependencies.
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