On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 01:04:50PM +0200, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
Given it is a binary source, I see no real advantage to adding it to the repositories.
Yep, me neither.
In fact I'd like to drop any binary source from our repositories...
-- Andrea
The real advantage here is that our users can conveniently install it from our central repository, no need to fiddle around and when 'we' ship it, there is at least someone testing it so that someone knows the possible quircks to make it work just fine on arch. I see no real reason to 'ban' packages with binary sources. Or would you rather go for the ubuntu model where we add a 'multiverse' like repository where all the dirty stuff is stored ? -- Ike