[maemo-developers] Ask for removal of some packages from Extras Fremantle repository

[From: luarvique at gmail.com]

On Mar 29, 2010 9:07am, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
> It might be mostly bullshit, but not entirely. If we teach people that
> it is normal to go hunting for alternative repositories, we
> substantially increase the risk that they run into unsafe and evil ones.
I do not think anyone is "teaching people to go hunting for alternative
repositories" here. What I do see though is that the Extras
admission/promotions processes have become so bothersome to
developers that they border on hostile.

In relation to that, I would like to remind everyone that the life does not
stop at Extras: it is *ok* to create and maintain your own repositories.
If Extras management would like as many developers as possible to use
Extras, they have to make actual changes to the admission/promotion
process rather than continue repeating the "everything but Extras is evil"
mantra. These changes have been discussed multiple times over the last
6 months, so it is somewhat sad to see that none of them are
implemented.

> One of the first things that you learn when you grow up is that it is
> not a good idea to put everything into your mouth that you find on the
> ground.
Another thing that you learn when you grow up is that grownups generally
prefer making their own decisions rather than allowing their parents to
continue making decisions for them.

> Thus, we should market the advantages of a centralized repository to our
> users (down to making adding new repositories with .install files more
> scary, but still fair), and work to reduce repository fragmentation by
> seeking out the 'rogue' ones and copying their packages into ours, if
> legal, and subject to the same QA as other packages, of course.
So, but I am afraid this is not exactly the first thing you should do. :)
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