On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:14:19 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
I realise I just suggested some pretty radical changes, but in my mind they make a lot of sense. I hope I didn't miss some obvious downsides (please point them out), I will (and I hope you do too) spend some nights pondering about this.
I think the core repo and its sign-off policy has proven itself to be a good idea. But we could make a little adjustment to our signoff policy to solve your filesystem package problem. [core]: This contains everything you need to boot up, connect to the internet and install additional packages from e.g. [extra] base group: A smaller subset of [core] that include packages that should be installed on every Arch system. base-devel group: Additional packages needed to build our base packages. (This group is indeed questionable and one might consider moving them to [extra] Everything else in core are packages that are not needed by everybody but required by some to "boot up, connect to the internet and install additional packages"; e.g. file system packages, firmware for your wireless card, wireless_tools etc.. I would suggest to change our policy to this: * packages in the base group and its dependencies still need the usual two sign-off per architecture * sign-offs for all other packages in core are optional; they still need to enter testing first, but can be moved to core without any sign-off after 3 days (or one week or whatever) The install CD would than contain the full core repo. What do you think of this proposal? Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre