[arch-general] Curious about arch repository policy

[Jelle van der Waa]

On 03/27/18 at 03:13pm, Dragon ryu via arch-general wrote:
> 2018年3月27日(火) 23:57 Sudarshan Kakoty via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org>:
> 
> > Hello...
> >
> > I was reading "Arch Wiki" and felt curious about that difference
> > between extra and community repo.
> >
> > Some packages, such as "meson" is in the "extra" repo, whereas "ninja"
> > is in "community" repo. The interesting fact is that -  is an implicit
> > dependency to "meson". So why that is (ninja) in the community repo?
> >
> > Also, some critical GNOME specific packages are part of the community
> > repo. Even, some compilers, like Haskell is also part of the community
> > repo. What is the exact difference between extra and community
> > repository?
> >
> > I wonder, Is it really important to have that split?
> >  --
> > Sudarshan Kakoty <skakoty1337 at yahoo.com>
> >
> 
> simply saying.
> community is TU managed repo; mostly from AUR by vote.

To be clear, votes don't matter for a package to be moved to
[community]. Some popular packages with many votes simply can't enter
the repository due to licensing or no interest of the TU's to maintain
it.

-- 
Jelle van der Waa
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