Thread: Requesting that private repos be taken down
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2009-06-20 , 08:35
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#33
Originally Posted by attila77 View Post
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
And now you are getting to the real problem. Some developers publish a repo 'to scratch their own itch' and share with other people. So far so good.

But then they lose interest, but the repository remains. New people add that repository every day to their device. If a package in that repository suddenly conflicts with a package in another repository or breaks the device, this repository suddenly becomes 'toxic'.

Leaving these unmanaged repositories behind can cause a lot of trouble for end-users, who don't know that adding the repository can be harmful.

What is worse from my point of view: you can't even step in and remove the package, fix it or even warn people about the hazard.

I have personally mailed about 70 repository holders, only got responses from half. This would probably mean that the other half lost interest, but still left their repository up.
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