On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Yurii A. Rashkovskii wrote:

Could we have one 'special' project that will be used to submit all third-party libraries that aren't in Arch already? In Arch large project could use special configs to fetch other sub-projects or libraries from their own trees. I think, that having all that libraries in one Arch archive could be useful.

I'm a bit leery of this, but this may be just because dispite multiple attempts I'm still not able to like arch.

Anyways, in this case my reasoning goes like this: Projects should generally not track each others raw-bleeding-edge-versions, but rather rely on released versions / snapshots.

Also -- more importantly -- if I understand correctly this would essentially require the non-arch projects to also start maintaining an arch repository; this is not going happen.

If otoh, the repository were maintained by Arch users, this would be less of an issue, but still sounds like a good opportunity for confusion (Which bleeding edge? The official CVS/Darcs/SVN/Whatever, or the Arch mirror?).

Still, on the third hand, if an arch user figures out how to set this up nice and hassle-free, I have no great qualms againt it.

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus Siivola