Hey, On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 15:11:35 +0200, Juergen Daubert wrote: [...]
A obvious solution is to move the DE repos into contrib.
I'd actually welcome this too. Earlier, we had both KDE and GNOME in opt, and I can't remember any real issues.
Sure, to get this working without troubles a little bit more communication is necessary, which isn't a bad thing IMO. Agreed.
A slightly less radical approach could be to have separate repostories as we have now, which are all part of the "contrib" projects, like this: contrib project: - "main" repository (current 'contrib') - "gnome" repository (current 'gnome') - "kde" repository (current 'kde') - "xfce" repository (current 'xfce') Contrib members would get access to all four repositories, and could thus commit specific ports to the DE repos. At the same time, all DE repositories would implicitely depend on the contrib/main repository, thus common ports which are currently in multiple repositories would be put into contrib/main. We could consider changing the syntax of /etc/ports/contrib.rsync a bit, to allow specifying the subrepositories there. Given that we've not been very good to come to a conclusion here, I'd suggest we discuss this at the next IRC meeting. Cheers, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@smts.ch Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.smts.ch