[arch-general] ArchLinux AntiDesktop (was: Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises)

[Ng Oon-Ee]

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.