Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:09:35 +0100 schrieb Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de>:
But I expect from a developer that he doesn't remove popular packages inconsiderately from the repos. (Otherwise don't call Arch Linux a binary distro.) I expect from a developer that he uses his brain. Sorry for this wording.
The Devs provide a basic distro + _some_ binary packages. We had a conclusion to provide a "core" repo that is known to be working and could be the ground to build _yourself_ a system to fit your needs. Take the "extra" repo as an additional gift some of us like to provide. It costs us a lot of time to maintain binary packages. Nobody is responsible to keep them alive. Packages come in and will fade out once a maintainer looses the interest in it. After some time we can't make sure it's still in a good shape and drop it from our official repo and leave it up to the community. You will have to live with this. -Andy