On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 06:39 +0200, Christos Nouskas wrote:
Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
I know, but why would anyone in their right mind put some tro^Wguy's custom repo _before_ the official ones, especially when the provided packages are not the nightly builds of <insert_your_fav_app> but ones like xorg-server?
In the preceding conversations some have said they would. The whole point of his repo is to maintain separate versions of xorg-server sans some bloat.
IMO, custom packages providing different functionality (or having important different dependencies for that matter) should have different names, e.g. nvidia-beta, kernel26-bfs, skype-oss, [kdemod-*], [nightly]. At the very least, it allows for for faster troubleshooting. Again, IMO.
=) There's been plenty of opinions in this discussion. I'd tend to agree that different names for significantly different functionality/patching is necessary, but for some compile-time options REMOVING functionality? Probably still a yes, but much more open to interpretation.