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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Repositories: Was [UK user community?]</H1>
<B>John Bowden</B>
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<I>Tue Sep 21 03:21:27 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 20 September 2010 12:32, atilla ontas <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">tarakbumba at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
><i> I'm agree with this opinion as i wrote a minute ago to the UK user
</I>><i> community? subject. But as you know we, therd party packagers are not
</I>><i> well experienced packagers. An official packager should review our
</I>><i> packages and aasist to correct issues. So, we can learn more and
</I>><i> provide better packages. As a result users can reach their needs from
</I>><i> official contrib or communtiy repo.
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</I>><i> 2010/9/20 Oliver Burger <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">burger at webgis.de</A>>:
</I>><i> > I totally agree with Thomas,
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > as some may know, the German community has their own repo as well. The
</I>><i> reason
</I>><i> > was the somehow difficult procedure in contributing packages to Mandriva.
</I>><i> > But: we have decided to contribute to mageia directly in the future. Like
</I>><i> > Thomas said, many Third-party repos make it difficult for the users to
</I>><i> find and
</I>><i> > install packages. It also leads to dependency problems sometimes, when
</I>><i> > packages from different third party repos collide.
</I>><i> > And even if there are packages which are only of use to people with some
</I>><i> > language, nationality and so on. Why shouldn't they be in the official
</I>><i> repos.
</I>><i> > E.g. I don't speak any asian language but the tools for those languages
</I>><i> did
</I>><i> > never disturb me. They were just there in the repo without ane
</I>><i> sideeffects to
</I>><i> > my system...
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Oliver
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > Thomas Lottmann <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">skiperdrake at gmail.com</A>>
</I>><i> >> Le 20/09/2010 12:53, atilla ontas a écrit :
</I>><i> >> > Also local communities can package software just for their needs and
</I>><i> >> > won't placed in official repos. Like we providing Zekr (Quran study
</I>><i> >> > tool) and zemberek (Turkish spell-checking tool) on Mandriva Turkiye
</I>><i> >> > repository (MVT)
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Just a not : I am against this form of packaging only for a group of
</I>><i> >> people. Anywhere in the world someone who wants to study a language,
</I>><i> >> turkish for xample, may need it. Currently we need to focus all our
</I>><i> >> efforts in Mageias official repositories and avoid as much as possible
</I>><i> >> having too many different repositories. Programs are usually not
</I>><i> >> territory dependant.
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> That's out of subject anyway, but I wanted to tell clearly my opinion on
</I>><i> >> this. Remember : Mageia takes back the same spirit of easy to use and
</I>><i> >> simplicity that comes form Mandriva and Mandrake. Fiddling with many
</I>><i> >> extra repositories is then what we do not want to hear about. This would
</I>><i> >> even force people to be members or to visit the website to add the repo
</I>><i> >> and then access te program they were looking for. So, that's just no to
</I>><i> me.
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</I>><i> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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yes i totaly agree with this. 1 collection of packages available for all
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