[arch-general] Is Voting Effective?

[Taylor Hornby]

On 04/11/2014 03:48 PM, Peter Baldridge wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Taylor Hornby <havoc at defuse.ca> wrote:
>> both are
>> included in Debian's official repositories.
> 
> Debian has more packages than another distro that I am aware of.  Last
> I heard, it was around 30,000. That is one thing they do very well.
> That's very much the polar opposite of arch's mission, interest, or
> ability.
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way
> 

While I don't see an obvious conflict with The Arch Way, I am definitely
not proposing we should "put everything in the official repos" or even
"have as many packages as Debian." That would be a big waste of time.

I'm only saying that the vote system is probably making us leave some
important packages behind, and it would be a lot better to have an
official channel for brining forward arguments like, "Package X is
really important. It should go in community because reasons A, B, and
C."

-- 
Taylor Hornby