Re: Some proposals

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>]

Hi

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> > unofficial or official doesn't matter too much as long as it is available.
>
> Redhat attitude. Inofficial packages harm since they polute the
> installed package environment and the quality is not guaranteed.

This is not always true. Sometimes external archives declare themself as
experimental and are good testbeds for patches/pkgs that get pushed to
upstreams/maintainers. The issue are not really external archives but the
way in which people handle/announce them.

Regards
Fabio

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