Re: Debian Weekly News - June 27th, 2000
On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:08:33PM +0300, Lauri Tischler wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Just what we don't need...
> That's what narrowminded ideology begets...
I'd agree that setting up a deb repository is narrowminded.
Consider this: any reasonable person who wants to become
a Debian developer, can become a Debian developer. Once a developer,
they can contribute to the official .deb repository.
It is doubtful that you would want to install a .deb from someone
rejected by our non-maintainer process anyway.
Hence, there is simply no need for such a repository.
Beyond that, installing such packages will no doubt lower the quality
of your Debian system. There's no quality control on third party
packages, for one thing. (rpmfind.net sounds like a complete disaster
to me, especially since there are multiple distributions using .rpm)
Namespace conflicts will apply. All the same problems with the
external non-free repository apply to this idea too, another stupid
idea recently discussed on debian-devel.
Don't mention KDE. We all know why Debian can't distribute KDE.
The license isn't up to it, and the KDE people don't publicly
acknowledge the problem. In Australia we would say they have their
heads up their arse.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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