On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:20, Markus Ackermann wrote:
Various stuff I noticed over the last few days:
- There's no Maintainer for the Quanta port although it's in contrib.
- dkg isn't listed on the About CLC page http://clc.berlios.de/?p=about
- I wouldn't call the status column "Retired" in About CLC because that sets a positive "yes" behind every name that's *no longer* part of CLC. I'd rather call it status and set "active" or "retired", or even delete that column or create a separate table with retired maintainers.
- atk is a problem for every GNOME user since it has to be in a newer version without there being an official port for that version. I hope pli and rrm3 can find a solution for the next CRUX version, latest.
atk is a problem indeed. Everything in contrib will need a newer atk than the one in opt. IMO, gtk2, glib2, atk, pango and xchat could simply be moved to contrib. Actually, xchat is the only program that I can see in opt that requires the above-mentionned libraries. And xchat definitely isn't a critical program to have after a new installation.
- the hotkeys port doesn't compile, the gnomeicu port doesn't work. Please remove them from unmaintained.
- unmaintained is a problem in itself. There are outdated and non-working ports, and nobody is responsible for them. I think it's worse to have such a repository than not having one at all. IMHO with the rise of httpup http://clc.berlios.de/projects/httpup/ there's no need for such a repository, every contributor can have his own httpup webspace. In order to still have a central directory you could create a httpop-rep port which always contains all known /etc/ports/*.httpup files. I think most httpup repository maintainers would still allow CLC maintainers to take over their ports for inclusion in contrib, if need arises. With such a decentralized model CRUX would be the first distribution to use P2P for its packaging :-) There is definitely a need for a such a package (or any other centralized way that allows users to publicize their httpup repository's address). It's cool to have a httpup repository, but if noone knows about it, it's kind of useless.
Viktor
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