[aur-general] Dropping official gitlab packages

[Anatol Pomozov]

Thanks for the reply.

On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 2:20 PM Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I maintain the official gitlab packages gitlab, gitlab-gitaly,
>> > gitlab-runner, gitlab-shell, gitlab-workhorse and python-gitlab. Out of
>> > these, I'll be dropping gitlab, gitlab-gitaly, gitlab-shell and
>> > gitlab-workhorse because they are way too much work to maintain and I can't
>> > keep up and the result isn't great.
>>
>> I remember discussions about using gitlab to manage our (future) git
>> repos. If we want to go this route then we need to keep gitlab in our
>> repos.
>
>
> That is entirely orthogonal because we're using Docker for that currently anyway as we'll use their Enterprise Edition offering which we didn't package.

I probably missed this discussion so I am out of context. But what is
the reason we prefer Docker+EE versus using a plain Arch package for
GitLab community edition?