On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@umail.iu.edu> wrote:
On (11/01/11 16:01), Calvin Morrison wrote: -~> 2011/11/1 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@archlinux.org>: -~> > 2011/11/1 Meyithi <mail@meyithi.com>: -~> >> I don't code, can we please move all coding tools to a separate repo so I -~> >> don't have to sync it? -~> >> -~> >> thanks -~> > -~> > You're a troll, you have a separate repo for you add it it's called [troll]. -~> > -~> -~> Actually I think there is a valid point being made. If we created a -~> repo for [games] why not [browsers], [code], lets just get a repo for -~> everything!
First of all, because this has already been done in openSuSE (a separete repo for texlive, for new KDE/gnome, for multimedia, etc...) -- not cool inho.
Second, because compilers are needed for core system tasks, browsers are general purpose software, and so on. This is what [core/extra] are about.
The point here is to separate apps not by purpose but overall quality. While you can argue all day long about creating (or not) a repo for security apps, games definitely fall into a [poor software] category which you can name [games], [communitty-extra] or whatever.
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Let's start by asking why we should change anything at all? I'm aware of http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-October/016170.html but Pierre warned against adding new huge packages, he didn't say TUs need to drop some of the packages they currently maintain. I'm not running a mirror and I have plenty mirrors to sync from in Europe and I don't know how does the current repo structure impact the mirror providers and users w/o any mirrors close to their location.