Hi

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 5:23 PM Matthew Miller wrote:

> That reason was _mainly_ to erase the inside Red Hat,
> community-around-the-edges distinction. That was a huge success and Fedora
> wouldn't be interesting without that. But I think the _technical_ choice
> was
> in retrospect a mistake. There's a reason RHEL 8 switched the _other_ way.
>

I think for a community distro, having it all in a single repo is
technically better as well because part of the problem that was being
solved by the merge was not just the community Red Hat delineation but also
the issue of build dependencies - core packages couldn't depend on packages
from extras and by splitting up repos again you will reintroduce the same
problems.  So don't do that.  What you need is some metadata and the
capability for the client tooling to expose that metadata so users can make
informed choices on what they are installing and that can be as flexible as
you want it to be.   apt-listbugs etc does similar things.

Rahul
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