On Tue 16 Nov 2010 21:21 -0600, Brad Fanella wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy@gmail.com> wrote:
Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your packages start to develop major Quantity over Quality issues and I don't think that's what we're going for.
I think this would be a much more constructive conversation if we all stopped complaining about the situation and started talking about how to improve the AUR. --Kaiting.
That's not a very good argument.
Sergej Pupykin: 1480 packages Jan de Groot: 1094 packages Andrea Scarpino: 809 packages
They all do an excellent job with maintaining a massive amount of packages at one time. Therefore, it obviously can be done without the "quantity over quality" issue that you speak of.
I think he was talking about mere mortals when he wrote that. Kaiting has a very good point though that much could be done to improve the AUR making it easier to deal with source packages and maybe other source based repos in Arch.