Thread: Requesting that private repos be taken down
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-06-19 , 23:25
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#30
Originally Posted by zerojay View Post
This feels like a microcosm of Linux itself, doesn't it? Why isn't there just one distro of Linux? Why not ask them to shut down their forks? Everyone can get their packages from the same place, QA would all be simpler, user experience would be better, etc, etc... Well, some people just have different ways of doing things... or they just want to operate outside of the norm. Or they need to tweak things so that it runs better on their small embedded machines.
Hey, nobody is going to be going around with a large stick beating up pesky private repo holders... It's just that you have to be in the clear that a private repo is something far off the beaten path -> that's why it's better for the repo owners to be aware of a possible (collateral) isolation and be offered to migrate to extras (and to find out why they aren't there in the first place, and thus help figure out what's the extras repo potentially missing).

A personal example, there is aumix. I just can't understand how N810 users can live without it, and yet, it's only in the elkins.org repo and causing mayhem with packaging as it's in a chinook repo The original packager probably lost interest and left it for dead. If it was extras, it would be easy for someone to pick it up, but this way it's a
 

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