Am Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:14:23 +0200 schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org>:
I had this thought during the above discussion about compat-wireless: Do we really need unstable? Almost nobody uses it and let's see which packages are in there:
opera-devel firefox3 kernel26mm fvwm-devel gimp-devel reiser4progs + dependencies. openoffice-devel mplayer-svn
Most of the rest is so out of date and old that it should be dropped anyway (including the external modules for kernel26mm). The packages that are actually being maintained can IMO be moved to extra. Everybody who installs a -svn or -devel package probably knows it is unstable (firefox3 should be renamed to firefox-devel then).
So I'm asking you: What is the point of having a repository with <30 packages, half of which are neither used nor maintained? Except maybe confusion among users (wait? enable unstable? isn't that dangerous?).
opera-devel - this is an exception only until there will be the first 64bit release. later devel releases could be maintained in AUR openoffice-base-devel - i really doubt it would be a good idea to maintain it in AUR - compile time matters here - it should stay somewhere binary (maybe even in extra or permanently in testing) ! -Andy