On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 05:39:05PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-10 15:34:15 +0000 Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >My advice? Keep everything centralized in a > >debian.org-hosted non-free section; life will be much, much, > >***much*** simpler. > > As you point out earlier in your email, we already have this problem.
I think are you exaggerating a bit there. I doubt that a large fraction of our users are using any non-Debian repositories. Of course I don't have evidence so if you have any contrary to this I'd be pleased to see it. > I suspect it will get worse. As free software, we cannot force > everything to be centralised. No, but we can provide almost every package our users would want, given sufficent resources (people and disk etc). There's no reason why many things *have* to be in separate repositories. With the exception of some things like mplayer etc which may well be illegal. (Not mplayer itself of course but the required libraries etc.) I think we would be stupid to split our repository into two and create the very problems Ted pointed out. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
