Hi it's quite a long time ago we had a dev meeting, but i think there were quite some agreement what [core] should be and we should start doing this soon. Our next ISOs shouldn't have the big current anymore only ftp and [core]. [non-free] repository we should add a non-free repository with stuff that is not freely distributable, like acroread, sun java, firmware files, flash etc. this cleanup would affect [extra] and [current] that way we could finally have cds of [extra] too without getting into trouble. As Romashka said, these are the types we need to look at: 1) those that are not possible to distribute due to prohibition of original package modification, but it does not work without modifications to installation procedure - like vmware 2) those that are not allowed to be redistributed by EULA - like commercial edition of virtualbox 3) those that are not allowed to be sold on a CD, but can be distributed over internet 4) those that are just not Free Software - it's nice to have them splitted if someone wants to have FOSS-only mirror/CD/etc 1+2 should be probably moved out of the official repositories, if not already done. 3+4 should be ok [core] repository should be like [base] + some extra stuff the question is: what is extra stuff? imho, it should be everything that is needed for networking free kernel network modules free wlan stuff all supported main filesystems suggestion list of packages to add: ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils wlan-ng26 rt2500 madwifi madwifi-utils fuse ntfs-3g iptables bcm43xx-fwcutter dosfsutils ntfsprogs kexec-tools snarf dnsutils hdparm bridge-utils ifenslave xinetd portmap nfsidmap nfs-utils openssh netkit-telnet screen isdn4k-utils capi4k-utils vpnc openvpn everything else from [current] should be moved to [extra]. your opinions, lets get something done this weekend. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org