On 31.08.2014 12:03, Stephan Aßmus wrote:
I wonder why the architecture has to be
provided at all. Isn’t the web-app connected to a single repository,
so the names should be already unique. Even if there are multiple
repositories later, package names should never clash and if two
repositories have packages of the same name, they should be a single
entry in the web app anyway.
Unless I recall incorrectly, the plan was to use the web app as a
central registry for repositories. And in that case there will
definitely be repositories containing the same packages. Some software
can be compiled with different options (take FreeType and the patent
stuff for instance) and we or others will provide differently configured
packages in separate repositories. How they can be subsumed in a single
entry in the web app I haven't though about. Those packages should have
a different summary and description, though.
